On Monday 18 February 2002 02:25, you wrote:
Has anyone else seen this problem n MDK 8.1?
su'd as root, occasionally RPM will start locking up, I think reading
its database. So, if I do rpm -qa for example, I'll get half the list
and it stops. It's hung until I break it. As soon as it happens once, it
keeps happening on subsequent tries.
When it's acting up, other operations like rpm -Uv will also hang. The
strange part? In another window, as regular user, do the same rpm -qa,
everything works fine.
These would normally be symptomatic of a corrupt rpm database. Have you tried
rpm --rebuilddb
as root?
I think it's ok if I login as root from console
When you say 'think' - have you verified this? If so, I'd suspect, if
rebuilding the database doesn't help, that your security level might be
interfering...
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john in sydney
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