On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:42, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mandrake 9.0. I was just trying to run a search for lesstif (rpm -qa|grep > lesstif) and found myself waiting forever for an answer. I then just > downloaded the lesstif rpm and tried to install it. Nothing. It does the > "preparing" thing but just stalls and never gets anywhere. I then tried > running "rpm --rebuilddb" and via gkrellm I see CPU activity spike up to 100% > for about 10 seconds or so but then it drops back to background and nothing > comes of it (from the CLI). I do not get dumped back to the commandline and > I have to do a Ctrl-C to get the command prompt back. > > What do I do to get rpm working again? What file do I delete (database, > config, whatever) so I can reset the whole mess with an "rpm --rebuild"? > > This is on my Thinkpad laptop.
Make sure that nothing else is trying to touch the rpm database. Search for all rpm instances in your `ps` listing then kill them. rebuilddb should then work properly.
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