RPM functions taking forever

Edward Dekkers edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Tue Mar 2 22:16:03 UTC 2004


Richard S. Crawford wrote:

> I tried to remove an rpm from my system (RH 8) earlier this evening, but
> the computer seemed to have stalled.  I killed the process, and began
> executing rpm --rebuilddb.  So far it has taken nearly ten minutes to do
> this, and I'm hearing no disk activity on my computer.
> 
> What could be causing this delay?  Is it something that I should be
> panicking about?
> 

Just as well you put down you're using RH8.

This is a know bug and due to stale RPM lock file.

The answer is here:

http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/

Regards,
Ed.






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