At 10:59 AM 6/19/2007, Tony Nelson wrote:
<TN>>>>>The output from lsof includes the command. Some RPM-using thing is
running.<<<<<
Oh, yeah, so it is... an instance of rpmq is running.
Killed that, and the __db* files went away.
Ran rpm --rebuilddb, which promptly went to sleep, and it's still running
(sleeping) after about 5 minutes... will let it run for a while longer
before taking the when-all-else-fails step (rebooting).
<TN>>>>>What about just ssh'ing in and issuing a reboot command?<<<<<
I can do that, have done it in the past when needed. I don't like to do it
because sometimes the reboot might not go cleanly, and anyway I like to
watch it while it's booting up to see if there is any recommendation for
doing an fsck (that 5-second timer that counts down, telling you to hit Y
to check disks, if the bootup process thinks the system was shut down
uncleanly).
This server is used a lot during the business day so I guess I should wait
until tonight to reboot... like I said everything else seems to be running
fine.
