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

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:05 PM -0400 6/19/07, Eric wrote:
>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).
 ...

`top` will tell you if it is sleeping or thinking, though it can't tell
productive work from spinning wheels.
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