On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 15:32, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: > On St, 2002-01-30 at 22:06, Frederik Himpe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When running this command in a local directory with Cooker RPMs, rpm > > seems to hang: > > rpm -Uvh *gnome* xscreensaver-4.00-2mdk.i586.rpm libgdk-pixbuf* > > > And does `rpm -qa' work? > My rpm stops working from time to to time and `rpm --rebuilddb' fixes > it.
Yes indeed,rebuilddb solved the problem. Still I think it's very bad that rpm just hangs in an infinite loop when there's something wrong with the db, it should give a clear error message with the suggestion how to fix it. Frederik
