[K12OSN] Updates

[Eric Harrison]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, norbert wrote:

>Hi Eric,
>
>As much as I would like to contribute more info the problem is that 
>up2date, yum & apt all just hang after being launched. I've checked with 
>both a "ps -aux rhn.... apt & yum" & by top & the tasks are running. 
>There have been no changes since I last ran then on my system & up2date 
>"informs" me that there are 10 updates available.
>
>Any suggestions ?

If apt, up2date, & yum are all hanging, the only thing that comes to
my mind is that your RPM database is locked up. Try this:

	rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*

Hopefully it is that easy.

-Eric