-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:40:19 -0700, RedHat Mailing List wrote:
> RedHat 9, fresh install. > > rpm -i perl-CGI-2.81-88.i386.rpm > > Entered the command and nothing happened for 10 minutes and it seemed my session had > locked up, so I disconnected and reconnected. The process was orphaned, so I killed > it. > > Now, just running rpm -qa doesn't seem to work. I entered the command 10 minutes > ago and it's still sitting there with no apparent activity. > > Any ideas on how to fix the problem? Interrupt rpm. If necessary, kill it. Then run rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* rpm -vv --rebuilddb Then try again. The first step removes temporary files with stale locks. The second step gives added safety. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/KRNj0iMVcrivHFQRAl/9AKCG3Mx1K2CQjY/xQV3KQjnbPyxK0ACghru1 +zJXRAJzk4Ab3VLVQuz5NHk= =SqWT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
