I've a remote FC4 machine which had a bunch of duplicate
packages installed. An earlier thread suggested I try
synaptic over vnc.
Worked pretty well. synaptic came up with a dialog showing
duplicate packages. synaptic also showed a "broken" package,
which it said it fixed.
Then I ran - over telnet - yum remove pkg-x.y.z, which hung
at the end:
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Removing : lrzsz
####################### [ 1/12]
[..............]
Removing : mt-st
####################### [10/12]
So again over telnet, I tried rpm --rebuilddb. That hangs also:
rpm -vv --rebuilddb
D: rebuilding database /var/lib/rpm into
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.11610
D: creating directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.11610
D: opening old database with dbapi 3
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
Checked ps aux, no yum synaptic or apt-get running. top
shows no activity for rpmdb.
NOW, what do I do?
