RPM hangs
by
antonh
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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