Re: RPM hangs

2003-09-04 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 September 2003 07:29 am, Ross Macintyre wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:52:47 +0200 Jason Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Thanks for the info y'all :) > > > > Micheal, I know the term 'lock files' should be fairly > > obvious, bu

Re: RPM hangs

2003-09-04 Thread Ross Macintyre
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Fratoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:11 AM > Subject: Re: RPM hangs > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > &g

Re: RPM hangs

2003-08-29 Thread Jason Dale
MAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:11 AM Subject: Re: RPM hangs > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 28 August 2003 12:15 pm, dave c wrote: > > I know this may not be much to add, but I have had this ha

Re: RPM hangs

2003-08-29 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 August 2003 12:15 pm, dave c wrote: > I know this may not be much to add, but I have had this happen to me > and a simple reboot solved the problem. Of course that might make me > appear that I'm in the same group as those windoze loser

Re: RPM hangs

2003-08-28 Thread dave c
, 28 Aug 2003 13:49:54 +0200 Subject: Re: RPM hangs OK ... I found a way to solve the problem.The %&@!&#* up2date program crashed in mid-install while I was doing the latest errata updates, and in so doing actually *did*stuff up the Packages database stored in/var/lib/rpm. (Next time I

Re: RPM hangs

2003-08-28 Thread Jason Dale
OK ... I found a way to solve the problem. The %&@!&#* up2date program crashed in mid-install while I was doing the latest errata updates, and in so doing actually *did* stuff up the Packages database stored in /var/lib/rpm. (Next time I will backup the database before TOUCHING up2date - se

Re: rpm hangs

2003-03-21 Thread dballester
For strange reasons, sometimes rpm gets 'freezed' when working with database. For now, the method that I know to solve the hang ( but no futures hangs ) is to kill all rpm process. Go to /var/lib/rpm and delete all __db.00(number) files. Then rpm processes will work correctly until the next hang ;

Re: rpm hangs

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:36:10 -0500, Margaret_Doll wrote > A reboot has fixed my systems when they get into that state. > I must say I was nervous that the systems wouldn't reboot, but they > did and were fine. On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 03:08 PM, > Stephen Mah wrote: > > > trying to run rp

Re: rpm hangs

2003-03-20 Thread Margaret_Doll
A reboot has fixed my systems when they get into that state. I must say I was nervous that the systems wouldn't reboot, but they did and were fine. On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 03:08 PM, Stephen Mah wrote: trying to run rpm -qa can it be a problem with the rpm database? rpm --rebuilddb seem