On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:26:46PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Frederik Himpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Every program opening the rpm db is hanging here, rpmdrake, kpackage. I
> > did an strace and I see this:
> > select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
> > select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
> > select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
> > ...
> >
> > I did rpm --rebuilddb, and saw that after about an hour it was still
> > running. Well, running, in top I saw in the STAT column "S<". I did an
> > strace on the rpmdb process, and again the same Timeout error... Any
> > ideas?
>
> I don't understand why we need to repeat always the same thing...
>
> Anyway.
>
> Do "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*" before doing the --rebuilddb, then do
> the --rebuilddb. It should work.
You were right. I had forgotten about these files. My excuses.
Frederik Himpe
