RPM functions taking forever

[Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez]

 --- Edward Dekkers <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au>
escribió: > 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.
> 

Ed, can you tell me if this bug could be avoid
removing packages with:
apt-get remove package.

Thanks, Ed,
Cheers
> 
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