At 09:01 AM 6/19/2007, Eric wrote:
<EP>>>>>I did that. There are four such files: __db.000 through
__db.003. Of those, only __db.000 is closed; the others are open. But, I
can't find anything in "ps aux" that looks like it might use rpm,<<<<<
As a followup ... When rpm, or a program that uses rpm, hangs up on me, the
only way to terminate it has been with kill -SIGKILL (-9). SIGHUP and
SIGTERM don't work). Killing with SIGKILL tends to be rather abrupt and
unclean, and no doubt left some open files (lock files or other) around.
I suppose a reboot is in order, wouldn't you say? Maybe I can get over to
the colo facility sometime tomorrow... at least the server is still running
fine in all other aspects so I guess it's not a dire emergency (yet)...
