RPM Installer dies.

[Michael Kalus]

Thanks,

The rebuild actually did it.

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> [mailto:redhat-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Schwendt
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: RPM Installer dies.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:25:17 -0500, Michael Kalus wrote:
> 
> > I have a rather strange problem and wonder if anybody else has 
> > encountered it:
> > 
> > It seems that on some RPMs under RH9 the RPM installer just gets 
> > stuck. When I kill the process the system doesn't seem to 
> be affected, 
> > but I can't run RPM anymore until I reboot (though it now 
> occurs to me 
> > that I might want to see if there are any processes left running).
> 
> Since Red Hat Linux 8.0, it can happen that RPM runs into 
> stale locks. The work-around, which does not require a 
> reboot, is to interrupt [or even kill, if necessary] the 
> processes related to RPM and/or packaging tools and then 
> remove the temporary files which are locked:
> 
>   rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> 
> Running
> 
>   rpm -vv --rebuilddb
> 
> for safety reasons would be an idea, too. After these two 
> steps, RPM should work again.
> 
> > I upgraded to Fedora Core 1 yesterday and it shows the exact same 
> > behaviour (I'd guess that the upgrade did not completely 
> replace the 
> > RPM stuff).
> 
> It should not happen regulary. Verify that you have the 
> correct version of RPM installed.
> 
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