On Wednesday 04 June 2003 10:38 am, Nick LeRoy wrote:
All..
I've recently installed SuSE 8.2 on a number of machines & love it.
However, on an IBM Thinkpad 20, I'm seeing a behaviour I've never seen before. I'm trying to update KDE to 3.1.2 (by hand, using rpm -hvU), and rpm keeps hanging. It goes through the install "motions", draws the hash accross the screen, then hangs in what I'd have to guess is the post-install. It's not just a single RPM that's causing this problem; it seems to be doing it on all of them. rpm is using 100% of the CPU, and gdb seems completely confused about it's image. I've done an 'rpm --rebuild' to verify that my database is ok, I've rebooted in case there's some kind of file left open, etc., but nothing seems to solve this problem. Has anybody else every seen this?
FWIW, rpm -q rpm shows rpm-3.0.6-470, and rpm --verify rpm seems happy.
Also, according to 'ps', rpm doesn't have any child processes running at the time; it's rpm itself that's, I imagine, stuck in a loop somewhere.
I'd appreciate any help that anybody can offer.
Update. Somehow, after rebooting, a second rpm --rebuilddb seems to have cured the problem. I'm baffled, but just happy that it's working again. -Nick