I have had the database corruption a few with RPM's, but the process always responds to a kill and I don't rember ever having to use a kill -9 to get it to stop. The I just removed some DB's as dirrected by some web site and retried the RPM command and it works. I have never had one get hung up this bad. On 7/5/07, Dan Lund wrote: > > No, it does happen with the rpm application rarely, and almost always > its so honked up that a SIGKILL won't terminate it. > I've seen it once or twice myself, and it almost always has to do with > a corrupted rpm database. > As far as killing it, that's something that I'd love to figure out.... > Though I've only ran into this on new installs when I'm applying > patches. I've always just figured itd take less man hours to > re-install. > > > > On 7/5/07, Matt Graham wrote: > > On Thursday 05 July 2007 10:27, after a long battle with technology, > > Shawn Badger wrote: > > > how do you kill something when kill -9 doesn't work? > > > > You don't, generally. SIGKILL will kill anything that isn't waiting on > > a syscall to return. If something is waiting on a syscall to return > > for more than about 0.5 seconds, you've got a hardware problem, a > > kernel bug, or a dead NFS server. (There's currently a live thread on > > comp.os.linux.misc about SIGKILL, oddly enough.) > > > > > My RPM database has become funky and now I have an rpm process that > > > will not close no matter what I have tried and I really hate resorting > > > to the M$ fix. > > > > Check dmesg for OOPS or BUG reports. > > > > -- > > Back in my day, all we had were 0's. We painted them different colors > > to tell them apart. Once this started bogging the processes down, we > > switched to naming them. I still miss Bob. --skritch on a.f.c (1998) > > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > "Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it." > -Napoleon Bonaparte > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >