On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 13:09, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 15:04, Kai Thomsen wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:31:43 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote > > a strangely formatted posting: > > > > > 2. Will Fedora finally fix the RPM lockup problem? With RH 8 and 9, > > > sometimes RPM will just seem to hang and never return. I occasionally > > > have to kill -9 the rpm process then rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*. I NEVER > > > had problems like this with RH 7 and the older RPM (which also seemed > > > much faster). > > > > On my RHL 9 machine, I haven't had those problems since upgrading to the > > new version available on <ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.2/>. > > You need to re-init and rebuild the database if this has ever happened, > as well. Otherwise, it seems it'll keep locking up on you. Not in my experiences. -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
