Yum deltarpm

[Matthew Gillen]

RPM's DB backend gets wedged sometimes.  It's become a lot less common than
it used to be, but it just happened to me again recently.  A solution (maybe
not the best) is to rebuild the database.  I have a script that does the
following:
$ cat fixrpmdb.sh
 #!/bin/sh
 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 rpm -vv --rebuilddb

The '-vv' makes it take longer, but I like it so that I can be sure it's
doing something.

Hope that helps,
Matt

Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> that does help, I can clear the lock without rebooting anymore! but, the
> rpm hanging still happens every time. Not sure what's causing the issue
> though.
> 
> On 1/24/07, * Rex Dieter* <rdieter at math.unl.edu
> <mailto:rdieter at math.unl.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Ahmed Kamal wrote:
>     > I've been hacking on the code yesterday, and it seems I am hitting
>     > some sort of a bug.
>     ...
>     > But it should be rare! In my case, this happens everytime. And I have
>     > to reboot to clear the lock!
> 
>     rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
>     doesn't work?
> 
>     -- Rex
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