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

[Eric]

At 10:59 AM 6/19/2007, Tony Nelson wrote:

<TN>>>>>The output from lsof includes the command.  Some RPM-using thing is 
running.<<<<<

Oh, yeah, so it is... an instance of rpmq is running.

Killed that, and the __db* files went away.

Ran rpm --rebuilddb, which promptly went to sleep, and it's still running 
(sleeping) after about 5 minutes... will let it run for a while longer 
before taking the when-all-else-fails step (rebooting).

<TN>>>>>What about just ssh'ing in and issuing a reboot command?<<<<<

I can do that, have done it in the past when needed.  I don't like to do it 
because sometimes the reboot might not go cleanly, and anyway I like to 
watch it while it's booting up to see if there is any recommendation for 
doing an fsck (that 5-second timer that counts down, telling you to hit Y 
to check disks, if the bootup process thinks the system was shut down 
uncleanly).

This server is used a lot during the business day so I guess I should wait 
until tonight to reboot... like I said everything else seems to be running 
fine.