On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: > Net Llama! wrote: > > You could have prolly fixed this by grepping the output from lsof to see > > what was currently locking the db. > > I didn't think of 'lsof' as I had used 'ps' and killed off everything > that looked like rpm. > > Wouldn't you have thought rpm would have said something like "can't get > lock" rather than just going comatose?
Yes, i'd think so too, but i've seen some less than desirable behavior from rpm-4.x. I had rpm 'lockup' on me on one of my RH9 boxes as well. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
