On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 18:11, Lisa Durham wrote: > I tried to use rpm -U instead of install and it just hangs ... does > nothing and I have to kill the process. > > I also tried to use rpm -e on the old kernel module and it hangs up and > I must kill the process. To get RPM going again, try the following: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* This should unlock the database so it'll start responding again. It's run each time the computer is restarted (it's in the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file, about line 657 for me). Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Hedlund daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx CEO & Chief Consultant DigiTree Studios Pty Ltd.
