On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:13:30AM -0500, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 03 November 2002 09:28 am, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > Ok I guess you can't learn unless you ask possibly stupid questions; > > What does: rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__* > > erase? > > It removes stale lock files. For details see: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73198 > > For those having problems with rpm hanging, (which appears to be the cause > of these stale lock files and corrupted databases) I've been using the > test release at: > ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/test-4.1/ > > It appears to have solved the problem here. iActually the bugzilla report tells you to do: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* But since there are no files in that directory whose names start __db* I still don't know what the point of the command is. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
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