On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 12:02 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 09:09 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> 
> > It's not happy since I seem to have the same results as before.
> > 
> ---
> as a means of a bookmark - this may be of use to you but I think this is
> more to the point of - if normal methods of rebuilddb aren't going to
> work, this probably has the sort of info that you/we need...
> 
> <http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2002-March/msg00072.html>
> 
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One more step thru on this...probably a little more succinct...


Fix a hoarked rpm database

	Symptom: All rpm commands "hang up"
	
	Find and kill all processes running rpm or up2date:

		ps ax | grep rpm
		ps ax | grep up2date
		
		(Kill them by hand)

	Remove all rpm database lock files:

		rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

	This usually gets things going. If not:
	
	First make a backup of the database:

		cp -r /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm.copy

	Then rebuild the database

		rpm --rebuilddb

	This takes some time, but if it hangs forever, repeat
	the "Find and kill rpm" step and proceed with:
	
		cd /var/lib/rpm
		db_verify Packages

		(You may need to install db4-utils)
	
	If db_verify reports errors, try:

		cp Packages Packages.backup
		db_dump Packages.backup | db_load Packages
		rpm --rebuilddb
		
	If all these steps fail, you are in big do-do. 

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