On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:34:29AM +0100, Roman Drahtmueller wrote:
rpm -Fhv html2ps-1.0b1-428.i386.rpm nothing happens and I can't kill the command with Ctrl-C.
"uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)"
I can kill "rpm" with "kill -9 process-ID". If I do so, it takes some seconds until the rpm process is killed.
This looks like a problem with the filesystem or the harddrive underneath. Can you see something unusual in the output of "dmesg"? Please run the command with an "strace -tfvv" before on the commandline and see where it gets stuck.
it was occasionally reported that a rpm --rebuilddb solves this kind of problem. you should make a backup of your rpm-db before doing so. cd /var/lib cp -av rpm rpm_backup # in case something goes wrong rpm --rebuilddb # this may take some time Lars