At 10:11 AM -0500 1/11/07, Don Levey wrote: >Has anyone seen anything like this? This morning at about 4:am (when my >daily cron jobs run) it seems that a process was started for rpmq. When I >woke up this morning I found that it was still running, taking 99% of my >CPU. I decided to kill it; CPU was returned. However, running yum update >or rpm -qa, each of which run rpmq, causes the problem again. > >Looking online, I see that one was to deal with this is to rebuild the RPM >database via 'rpm --rebuilddb'. However, that seg faults on me. I tried to >run 'yum clean' to no avail. Should I try 'rpm --initdb' instead? No (though --initdb no longer removes your existing database, it doesn't do anything useful anymore either). If Michael Young's suggestion to reboot doesn't help, try as root "rpm --verifydb". The Packages file must be OK, for --rebuilddb to work. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>