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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