Thanks Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin R. Mohilef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 11:09 PM Subject: Re: LinNeighborhood
> FWIW, I have noticed that on very rare occasions rpm has gone > into "hang" mode (usually when installing a new glibc). The only > way to clear it was to do a "killall -9 rpm" from another screen. This > has only happened on the smp boxen running RH 8.0 or Rawhide, > however. > > After some playing --er-- experimentation, I found the only cure was > a reboot. Rebuilding the rpm data base didn't help. If your symptom > is the same as mine, "rpm -q" will not return any results unless you > exit root and perform the query from an unprivileged user account. > After the reboot, rpm returns to normal under the root account. > > The last time it happened I got interested enough to try to trace it. > However, as with all rare intermittents, I couldn't get the bug to > reproduce, so no joy at trying to fingerprint it. > > > > > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 15:50, John Salamone wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 15:29, John Salamone wrote: > > > > > The remove command didn't work. It came back and said rm: > > > > > invalid > > > option -- > > > > > / > > > > > > > > > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > > > > > > > > Try again and make sure you enter the command exactly as it is > > > > above. Cut and past it. > > > > > > same result as before > > > > Well, then, I'm not sure what to tell you. If I cut and paste that > > command, I don't get errors. There is only one option to rm, and that > > is "-f". > > > > It may be that there's some problem cut-n-pasting between an old X > > application and a new terminal (with the UTF-8 changes, I've seen it > > happen), but somehow or other you're going to need to type that > > command and remove those files. > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
