Re: [Wlug] rpm lock-up

Bill Mills-Curran <subssn594@charter.net> writes:

Now, that user account can no longer do any rpm commands from any session -- it always hangs. You can kill -9 the existing rpm processes, but nothing I've tried helps until reboot.

Perhaps there is some kind of stale lock file sitting around? I don't use rpm, but I'd suggest running strace on the rpm command to see what the problem might be. strace rpm <args> -- Josh Huber