On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 12:02 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 09:09 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
>
> > It's not happy since I seem to have the same results as before.
> >
> ---
> as a means of a bookmark - this may be of use to you but I think this is
> more to the point of - if normal methods of rebuilddb aren't going to
> work, this probably has the sort of info that you/we need...
>
> <http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2002-March/msg00072.html>
>
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One more step thru on this...probably a little more succinct...
Fix a hoarked rpm database
Symptom: All rpm commands "hang up"
Find and kill all processes running rpm or up2date:
ps ax | grep rpm
ps ax | grep up2date
(Kill them by hand)
Remove all rpm database lock files:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
This usually gets things going. If not:
First make a backup of the database:
cp -r /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm.copy
Then rebuild the database
rpm --rebuilddb
This takes some time, but if it hangs forever, repeat
the "Find and kill rpm" step and proceed with:
cd /var/lib/rpm
db_verify Packages
(You may need to install db4-utils)
If db_verify reports errors, try:
cp Packages Packages.backup
db_dump Packages.backup | db_load Packages
rpm --rebuilddb
If all these steps fail, you are in big do-do.
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