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

Randy Gordey gordey at stdio.com
Tue Jun 19 14:42:14 UTC 2007


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


Regards,




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