I had the same problem on a RH 8 box...  A reboot fixed it.


On 8 Dec 2002, Carl Parrish wrote:

> Anyone have any ideas why rpm may be hanging on RH 8.0?  I've tried rpm
> --rebuilddb. *Any* rpm commands I give hanges and never complets I've
> tried adding the -v switch to get more info however it hangs as well.
> I've made sure that I've killed all previous rpm commands. Now I just
> don't have a clue.