On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
Try it after you do a su - in a terminal window. The simple su gives
you a sort-of root. The su - makes it a real root termial.
Just tried it - same thing, it freezes. Happens for "su", "su -", and
"sudo".
Two things that I have done in the past to resolve problems with rpm and yum commands that hang.
1) rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
I'm not sure what information is held in these files, but deleting them
seems to clear up some problems. The files get automatically re-created
The __* files are BDB "database environment" files which among other
things contain rpmdb locks. If anything accessing the rpmdb as root is
terminated uncleanly (kill -9 or through crash) you'll need to clean up
the environment (with the above rm -f command) before rpm/yum/anything
else using rpmdb can access them.
- Panu -
