Re: RPM stops responding

2003-01-22 Thread bob
Brian, Don't know if this will help, but if your rpm database is corrupt, maybe Shadowman's technique will work for you. http://www.redhat.com/advice/ask_shadowman.html Also for people having the NVidia "hide-and-go-seek" RPM problem. It's a glorious day to die in battle, Bob Brian Curtis

Re: RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Brian Curtis wrote: Hello Randy, Is this a recommendation based on experience(s)? Thanks again. Yes. I have 3 machines running 8.0, and have seen this problem several times on two machines, but NEVER on one machine. The 2 machines that had the problem are both K6-2 500 machines. After upgr

Re[2]: RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Raul Acevedo
Brian Curtis wrote: > RK>ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/test-4.1/ > > Is this a recommendation based on experience(s)? Yes. The RPM hang is a well-known bug, and what people have suggested is coming directly from the bug reports. If you go to bugzilla.redhat.com and query for RPM bugs in 8

Re[2]: RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Brian Curtis
Hello Randy, Tuesday, January 21, 2003, 12:23:36 PM, you wrote: >> Any ides how I can get rpm responding once more? I'd like to avoid a >> reboot, if at all possible. >> RK> Remove the lock files and rebuild the database: RK> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* RK> rpm --rebuilddb Thanks to all wh

RE: RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Patrick
Brian Sounds like the RPM db is corrupted. Try to rebuild the RPM db using instructions at: http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ >> Hello, >> >> I just tried to rpm -e my MySQL 3.x rpms in preparation for MySQL 4 >> when I ran into a bit of trouble. >> >> After trying to # rpm -e mysqlclien

Re: RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Randy Kelsoe
Brian Curtis wrote: Hello, After trying to # rpm -e mysqlclient9-3.23.22-6 I ended up having to kill -9 the process after 15 minutes since it seemed to stop responding. Now every time I try any rpm query/update/delete, the process goes into sleep mode and has to be terminated with a kill -9.

RE: RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Douglas Hardison
sday, January 21, 2003 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RPM stops responding Hello, I just tried to rpm -e my MySQL 3.x rpms in preparation for MySQL 4 when I ran into a bit of trouble. After trying to # rpm -e mysqlclient9-3.23.22-6 I ended up having to kill -9 the process after 15 minutes

RE: RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
rian Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tue, January 21, 2003 6:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RPM stops responding > > > Hello, > > I just tried to rpm -e my MySQL 3.x rpms in preparation for MySQL 4 > when I ran into a bit of trouble. > > After try

Re: RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Piero Calucci
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:30, Brian Curtis wrote: > Hello, > > I just tried to rpm -e my MySQL 3.x rpms in preparation for MySQL 4 > when I ran into a bit of trouble. > > After trying to # rpm -e mysqlclient9-3.23.22-6 I ended up having to > kill -9 the process after 15 minutes since it seemed to

RPM stops responding

2003-01-21 Thread Brian Curtis
Hello, I just tried to rpm -e my MySQL 3.x rpms in preparation for MySQL 4 when I ran into a bit of trouble. After trying to # rpm -e mysqlclient9-3.23.22-6 I ended up having to kill -9 the process after 15 minutes since it seemed to stop responding. Now every time I try any rpm query/update/del