Frederik Himpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > 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.
it doesn't hang, it waits because there's __db* files in /var/lib/rpm. they may be here because rpm was killed, interrupted, another rpm is running, ...
