[wplug] RPM problems in redhat 8

[John Strange]

It's update with all the biggest things that could be affecting the rpm
database getting munched.  What's the pisser is updating it is a real
pain in the ass cause it hangs the rpm db.  So about 1 out of 3 rpm's I
have to stop and fix it AGAIN, and then hope it doesn't hang.  I gave up
last night patching the final rpms when it hung 3 in a row.

It's really pretty random at this point and it's about time to put
gentoo down on the home machine hehe :)  I just don't think wife would
let me get away with the downtime since it's out
firewall/nat/router/file server.

- John

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 08:53, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> John Strange wrote:
> > Hey Gang,
> > 
> > Did anyone find a fix for redhat 8 where the rpm database just hangs
> > and munches itself.  I have a machine at home that loves to munch
> > it's own rpm db and I have to kill -9 the rpm command, delete the
> > ___db* files and --rebuilddb to get it to work again.
> > 
> > I've found the bug in bugzilla but it's a huge mess of no that did not
> > fix it, nope nope nope and nope..
> > 
> > I'm hoping here someone who has fixed it themselves could give me a
> > hand. 
> 
> 	From what I thought I read, deleting and rebuilding the database was
> supposed to fix things.  A quick combing of my RH emails shows that pretty
> much everyone complaining about the "munching" got it resoled with "rm -f
> /var/lib/rpm/__db*" and rebuilding the db....  perhaps you've got something
> worse going on.  Are you fully updated?
> 	I've got an 8 box here - is there something I might try to
> duplicate?
> 
> Don
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