[PlanetCCRMA] rpm hang

[foltra@terra.cl]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003, Joe Hartley wrote:

> Anyone ever seen rpm commands just hang?  Doesn't matter what it's doing,
> could even be "rpm -q -a"  The command just hangs, I can't ^C out of it
> but have to do a kill -9 from another shell.
> 

http://rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/

It happened to me recently (redhat9+planetccrma). the rpm program
hanged so hard that kill -QUIT didn't kill the guy, i had to shutdown
and rebuild the database.
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Francisco Oltra