[wplug] RedHat 9: Two days

[Mark Allen Adams, Jr.]

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> | 3.  The RedHat update mechanism stalled twice on me, had to reboot,
> | but ran fine after that second reboot.
>
> you had to reboot? this is not good. did you try to kill the process?
>  in kde you can hit <ctrl>+<esc> to get the "system guard" and then
> select the process and click on the kill button. at the prompt you
> can type "
>
>  # ps aux | grep up2date
>
> and then use
>
>  # kill -9 NNNNNN
>
> on the pid (NNNNN second column of info) that gets spit out.

up2date invokes rpm.  I'd wager to say that 80% of the times I've 
rebooted were because rpm had hung and I couldn't install anything new.  
If you do the above, you may find that rpm no longer responds.  If so, 
remove the lockfile and rebuild the rpm database like so (as root):

# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
# rpm -vv --rebuilddb

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Mark Allen Adams, Jr. (adamsma at washjeff.edu)
"Be wary of strong drink.  It can make you shoot at tax collectors and 
miss." - Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

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