On Tuesday 15 February 2011 00:56:56 Jeff Johnson wrote: > This is cleaning up "stale locks" from process 1068 abnormally exiting.
The uncleaned lock probably comes from the previous rpm -i attempt. > > D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages > > create:thread:auto_commit mode=0x2 > > D: pool tsi: created size 24 limit -1 flags 0 > > D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages > > D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages > > And this looks like an empty Packages file (it won't be 0 length, but > it will be small, like < 10Kb). > > Is that the case? mmm no, is more than 6 MB: # ls /var/lib/rpm -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1331200 Feb 13 17:22 Basenames -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Feb 13 17:20 Conflictname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 212992 Feb 13 17:22 Dirnames -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1314816 Feb 13 17:22 Filedigests -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4489216 Feb 13 17:22 Filepaths -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Feb 13 17:22 Group -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Feb 13 17:22 Installtid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Feb 13 17:22 Name -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32768 Feb 13 17:22 Nvra -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Feb 13 17:22 Obsoletename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Feb 13 17:22 Packagecolor -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6373376 Feb 15 00:37 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167936 Feb 13 17:22 Providename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45056 Feb 13 17:22 Provideversion -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Feb 13 17:18 Pubkeys -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118784 Feb 13 17:22 Requirename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49152 Feb 13 17:22 Requireversion -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49152 Feb 13 17:22 Sha1header -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Feb 13 17:22 Sigmd5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Feb 13 17:22 Sourcepkgid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Feb 13 17:20 Triggername Silvan -- mambaSoft di Calarco Silvan Web: http://www.mambasoft.it mambaSoft Store @ http://www.mambastore.it openmamba GNU/Linux development @ http://www.openmamba.org ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org