Try killing rpm with: 
# kill -9 rpm
or:
# killall 09 rpm
then you want to delete some of the files in /var/lib/rpm. I think it's
# rm __*

Jesse

Quoting Mathieu Jobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hello,
> 
> I dont know if anyone ever heard of this problem, I can't do anything with my
> 
> rpm. no query, no install, no uninstall. I can't launch.
> 
> well, I can query for one package 'rpm -q <package>'
> but i mostly use 'rpm -qa | grep <package>' 
> 
> and when I do that, it hang, taking no CPU, doing nothing.
> I've try outputting to a file.
> 
> rpm -qa > /tmp/out_rpm_qa
> 
> it hangs, and there is only 90 packages listed.
> 
> I've try
> 
> rpm --rebuilddb
> 
> just hang.
> 
> no error message displayed.
> 
> I can't launch rpmdrake neither. I don't know, I don't remember having played
> 
> with something related to rpm.
> 
> if anyone have an idea...
> 
> 
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