Mark try this (hopefully you can because if you can't... you can't install it from rpm, but you could build from source.) strace rpm --rebuilddb This will trace the program stack and in about.... oh the last 5 lines or so you should see where it is hanging.
If not a second try might be to open two term windows (if you are in X ) and as root cd /var/log and do tail -f messages . Then in the second one run rpm and see if anything kicks out. Third is to check /var/log/cron/errors and see if anything exists in the way of an error message when it tries to run /etc/cron.daily/rpm . It might clue you in as well. James On Mon, 27 May 2002 09:24:21 -0400 "Mark D. Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List, > > I've got something weird going on with RPM on my on Mandrake box. When > ever I attempt to --test install a package or just plain old -ivh a > package(s) I'm accustomed to seeing it "do" something. at the very > least come back with an error telling me there are dependency > issues. However, now it isn't doing anything! I can't even get it to > do a --rebuilddb. > > When I enter a command on the command line it just sits there as > though it's stuck. Anyone have any ideas what might be going on here? > > thanks, > > Mark > > >
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