At 8:42 AM -0600 6/19/07, Randy Gordey wrote: >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. >> >> 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)... >> > >Have you tried this yet? > >[root@fedora ~]# cd /var/lib/rpm >[root@fedora rpm]# rm -f __db* >[root@fedora rpm]# rpm --rebuilddb -vv Have you been following this thread, or are you just horning in now? That's a rhetorical question. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
