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

[Tony Nelson]

At 8:42 AM -0600 6/19/07, Randy Gordey wrote:
>Eric wrote:
>> 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)...
>>
>
>Have you tried this yet?
>
>[root at fedora ~]# cd /var/lib/rpm
>[root at fedora rpm]# rm -f __db*
>[root at fedora rpm]# rpm --rebuilddb -vv

Have you been following this thread, or are you just horning in now?
That's a rhetorical question.
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