problem with mppe after kernel upgrade
Daniel Hedlund
daniel at digitree.org
Sun Dec 7 07:21:12 UTC 2003
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 18:11, Lisa Durham wrote:
> I tried to use rpm -U instead of install and it just hangs ... does
> nothing and I have to kill the process.
>
> I also tried to use rpm -e on the old kernel module and it hangs up and
> I must kill the process.
To get RPM going again, try the following:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
This should unlock the database so it'll start responding again. It's
run each time the computer is restarted (it's in the
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file, about line 657 for me).
Cheers,
Daniel
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Daniel Hedlund
daniel at digitree.org
CEO & Chief Consultant
DigiTree Studios Pty Ltd.
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