rpm lockups?

[Doran Barton]

Not long ago, Barry Roberts proclaimed...
> No matter how many times I did 'rpm --rebuilddb' it never seemed to
> help for me.  IIRC, it eventually got better after an 'apt-get
> upgrade' to a later version of rpm.

Yeah, RH8 has this problem. Anytime it happens, I ^Z to suspend the process
(abort doesn't work) and then I have to 'kill -9' the rpm process. Then,
'rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00?' to delete the db files.

After you do this, RPM will work... unless next time. :)

I haven't seen this issue with RH9.

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