Dan, Thanks again for all your help, it worked finally! Dave On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 21:39, Daniel Hedlund wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:32, Sponger wrote: > > That line is already there.....what should I do with it? > > Well, I actually meant for you to try to run that line after you have > killed all processes using RPM (they might kill themselves if you run > the command though...not sure). It seems restores the RPM databases > back to a usable state after the databases get locked up. It normally > works for me anyway. The bit in parenthesis was referring to where the > line comes from. Most people are scared to run anything that involves > 'rm -f <some_filename>', especially when it sounds like the database: > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > > Cheers, > > Daniel
