yum, rpm, pirut, pup won't run on FC6

[Eric]

At 09:01 AM 6/19/2007, Eric wrote:

<EP>>>>>I did that.  There are four such files:  __db.000 through 
__db.003.  Of those, only __db.000 is closed; the others are open.  But, I 
can't find anything in "ps aux" that looks like it might use rpm,<<<<<

As a followup ... When rpm, or a program that uses rpm, hangs up on me, the 
only way to terminate it has been with kill -SIGKILL (-9).  SIGHUP and 
SIGTERM don't work).  Killing with SIGKILL tends to be rather abrupt and 
unclean, and no doubt left some open files (lock files or other) around.

I suppose a reboot is in order, wouldn't you say?  Maybe I can get over to 
the colo facility sometime tomorrow... at least the server is still running 
fine in all other aspects so I guess it's not a dire emergency (yet)...