At 9:21 AM -0400 6/19/07, Eric wrote: >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. It risks the RPM database. >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)... Sure, a server can run for years without a working RPM. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
