On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:08:41AM +0200, d.huecking@gmx.net wrote:
I saw this thing happen two times before. I did an update of many RPM-packages and the hell knows why when processing rpm seemed to stop working and took around 100% system load. I killed rpm after waiting some minutes and tried to process explicitly this one package, but rpm showed
According to the strace, rpm got stuck in an infinite loop reading something from the database; not sure what. But it definitely shouldn't be doing this.
just the same behaviour... As a solution I made a backup of my rpm-database (/var/lib/rpm) and regenerated it with rpm --rebuilddb. After that the update ran as expected.
I've never done this myself, but it seems like a good thing to try. (including the part about backing up /var/lib/rpm first :) Cheers, Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | Anyone who has had to work with X.509 has probably okir@suse.de | experienced what can best be described as ---------------+ ISO water torture. -- Peter Gutmann