Hi- These files comes from when rpm is killed without killing its child processes. Then the rpm database is open and locked for other rpm processes.
There is more info on this on an errata at rpm.org. Regards Torstein On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Björn Olsson wrote: > On 30 Jun 2003 James Sparenberg wrote:: > > > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:11, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > > > Hi List! > > > > > > I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is > > > working. > > > > > > Any other suggestion? I cannot reboot the computer. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > cd /var/lib/rpm and remove files like __db.001 etc (note it's two > > leading underscores) then try again. > > > > James > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > James, > > What are these files for? I've got two of them in my folder and one of > them seems to contain info from some installed rpms, among other things. > > /Björn Olsson > >
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