when i do rpm --rebuilddb it hangs. I have to do a kill -9 to fix it. I can't install any rpm's If i reboot my box I can use RPM again. however only to install one rpm. After that, i must reboot again to use another rpm. Any ideas? -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Freedom: http://www.technojihad.com/ Zoop Productions: http://www.zoop.org/ KTEQ Rapid City: http://www.kteq.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Are you really sure it hangs? --rebuilddb takes a *very* long time to complete, like even up to 30 minutes or so. How long did you wait? On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:11:05AM -0400, Karl Hiramoto wrote: karl> karl> when i do rpm --rebuilddb it hangs. I have to do a kill -9 to fix karl> it. I can't install any rpm's karl> karl> karl> If i reboot my box I can use RPM again. however only to install one karl> rpm. After that, i must reboot again to use another rpm. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:25:46AM -0400, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
Are you really sure it hangs? --rebuilddb takes a *very* long time to complete, like even up to 30 minutes or so. How long did you wait?
It's a good idea to add -vvv to a --rebuildb, just so you can see that it's still actually doing work. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Karl Hiramoto wrote: <snip> KH> when i do rpm --rebuilddb it hangs. I have to do a kill -9 to fix KH> it. I can't install any rpm's KH> KH> KH> If i reboot my box I can use RPM again. however only to install one KH> rpm. After that, i must reboot again to use another rpm. KH> KH> KH> Any ideas? <snip> Karl, I've been in the same position. Here's what seems to work. In /var/lib/rpm, there are 3 database files __db.00?. Put them someplace for safekeeping, then rebuild your database. Apparently, there are some operations that can give you a corrupt database, and rebuilding with "rpm --rebuilddb" doesn't fix it. You have to start from scratch. The good news is that you don't lose anything. Bill
thanks removing the __db files seemd to do the trick but now i have rpm --rebuilddb error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy reading on google gave me: http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/rpm-list/2003-April/003973.html so supposdly there is nothing to worry about. On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
<snip> KH> when i do rpm --rebuilddb it hangs. I have to do a kill -9 to fix KH> it. I can't install any rpm's KH> KH> KH> If i reboot my box I can use RPM again. however only to install one KH> rpm. After that, i must reboot again to use another rpm. KH> KH> KH> Any ideas? <snip>
Karl,
I've been in the same position. Here's what seems to work. In /var/lib/rpm, there are 3 database files __db.00?. Put them someplace for safekeeping, then rebuild your database.
Apparently, there are some operations that can give you a corrupt database, and rebuilding with "rpm --rebuilddb" doesn't fix it. You have to start from scratch.
The good news is that you don't lose anything.
Bill
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