On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Eric wrote: >At 09:37 AM 6/19/2007, Claude Jones wrote: > ><CJ>>>>>We're all busy, Eric. You can't take the time to glance at two days >worth of list traffic, but I should summarize my efforts of over 36 hours >for you.<<<<< > >Sorry, I didn't mean for it to sound like that. Nor did I intend for you >to go through the effort you just did (thanks!). I thought a >one-short-paragraph summary would do it. > >I was unable to access the list archives the last few times I tried it, >don't know why (doesn't have anything to do with Linux, have tried and >failed on both Windows and Linux boxes) but this morning I was able to get >through to it and found one of the threads you mentioned, the one about >"Package managers gone haywire". > >Your notes about SELinux are noted, however I have had SELinux disabled all >along. I just checked it and it's still disabled. > ><CJ>>>>>you seem to have the time to drive to the next city over if you >must<<<<< > >Actually I don't, nto really ... that's the problem. But, as you say, if I >"must" then I guess I have to take the time whether I have it or not... > >I will try all the things you tried, although I am a little nervous about >deleting all the __db.00x files when three of the four of them are still >open as reported by lsof. I think that's caused by having to kill the rpm >process with SIGKILL, which tends not to kill things very cleanly... > Deleting those __db* files is benign. If they are trashed but present, rpm will do double flip-flops till it upchucks. Kill 'em, they will be silently rebuilt the next time you run yumex or smart. > I've been toying with the notion of just rebooting the machine remotely >with "reboot"... I suppose the worst that can happen then is I'll have to >drive over to the colo facility and fix it if it doesn't reboot properly... > >Eric Poole >Burgoyne, Nolet & Poole, Inc. >www.bnpconsulting.com -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
