On 13 Feb 2002, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:
> > I just now noticed that thanks to /etc/cron.daily/rpm I've got a
> > *really* long running rpmq process:
> >
> > root 4261 89.1 0.4 3548 1216 ? R 04:02 290:50 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq
>-q --all --qf %{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}
> >
> > Well, 290 minutes is quite a lot, isn't it? How/Why does this happen?
> >
> > Alexander Skwar
> I get rpmq running forever when rpm database is corrupted. It looks like
> this: I run rpm -qa and it prints out some names and then stops, waiting
> forever in a loop. If I kill it and do `rpm --rebuilddb' it works again.
This is an artifact from stale lockfiles with the db cutover
in recent RPM -- it has been discussed in the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in recent months. See:
http://www.rpm.org/ for mailing list subscription information.
The --rebuilddb clears stale lockfiles. Other approaches also
exist.
-- Russ Herrold
