Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> I'm using rpm-4.0.3-0.15mdk. Since yesterday, I cannot install any rpm
> packages anymore. The last thing I installed was talk{,-server}.
> Running rpm thru strace, I see that it hangs at:
>
> 1915 select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
>
OK, this isn't exactly a fix to the problem, but it will get you up and
running again. I think the database is getting corrupted. What I do and
I've mentioned before on the list:
ncftpget, lftpget, wget whatever ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/
rpm-4.0.2.i386.tar.gz
tar xvzf
rpm-4.0.2.i386.tar.gz -C /
rpm --rebuilddb
Then go ahead and
rpm -Uvh --force --replacefiles rpm-*.rpm
and try
rpm --rebuilddb
until it works again.
4.0.3 is on ftp.rpm.org but only as an rpm... bad idea here.. though
alien or cpio or mc can be used to get at them.
--
Sincerely,
David Walluck
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