>I was going to output a new list of installed packages to ensure that mysql
>was in there, but rpm -qa | ./installed_packages doesn't seem to work at the
>moment...I can't restart the server right now, so perhaps I could kill and
>restart some process? However, this is from yesterday's output:
 
The RPM database can become corrupted, causing the rpm -qa to hang.  To rebuild the 
database follow the following instructions:
 
ps -ef |grep rpm  - kill all rpm processes
rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuild
 
You should then be able to query the rpms.

Scott Pippin
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