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RPM hangs

by antonh last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

When installing the RPM packages with new SSL certificate for up2date, I got halfway through the install when RPM just hung. Came back half an hour later and still nothing was happening. So I killed it. Which seemed to have the effect of hanging the whole program on any subsequent attempts to run it. It's a "bug":http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88164 in rpm on RH8 & RH9. To fix it you need to do the following:: # pkill -9 rpm (if rpm is still hanging) # rm /var/lib/rpm/__db* That second line is the important one

 


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