-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 11:38 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > Azrael wrote: > > Do you have the rpm database locked by a zombie/dead/half-dead/forgotton > > rpm process somewhere? check all your processes and kill off rpm related > > ones? > > Also, rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* (after rpm processes are killed)? Then, > --rebuilddb.
Ah. Thank you, deleting those files did the trick and I was subsequently able to rebuild the database. Thank you! Sigh of relief. I have found what appears to be a highly reliable means of wrecking your rpm database. Do a search/query of your database using "rpm -qa|grep <whatever>" and terminate the process before it finishes. Using Ctrl-C works for this nicely. After this, the database is hosed and requires rebuilding. This is a bug as simply querying the database and terminating the query shouldn't alter the database in any way. It should be a simple reading of the database. This wrecking procedure worked in 8.2 and continues to work in 9.0. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+KDU81i/6R1B/Yh0RAhSrAJ9tXWW9F+33dT/ONdq3G7Ztk1PsuwCggouy C/tJroKKGBGBmDkfhKfSf1s= =CKhF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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