x86_64 Devel 2.6 kernel rpm failure?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Jason Knight writes:

> I dont really know if I am making a fool of myself trying this but 
> whenever I try to install the kernel-2.6.2-1.81.x86_64.rpm 
> <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/Fedora/RPMS/kernel-2.6.2-1.81.x86_64.rpm> 
> from 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/Fedora/RPMS/  
> it just hangs, I try to redirect verbose output but nothing comes out. 
> Any ideas?

I think the x86_64 platform is still susceptible to locking-related RPM 
hangs.  I haven't had this happen on i686 for quite some time, but it just 
happened to me, the other day, on x86_64.

Go into /var/lib/rpm, and delete all __db* crap.  That should fix it.

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