RPM command locked

Stuart Sears stuart at sjsears.com
Thu Mar 18 17:33:17 UTC 2004


On Thursday 18 Mar 2004 15:33, Christian Campbell wrote:
> After doing an upgrade of a package on my RH8 system, whenever I
> run any rpm commands, it locks up.  I remember a fix posted once
> (that I actually used) that solved the problem.  Something about
> recreating the RPM database(?).  Can't reboot the box, as it's a
> production sever.  Does anyone know how to fix this?

cd /var/lib/rpm
rm __db*
rpm --rebuildb

HTH

Stuart
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