Posted by sibu on March 3, 2009
Fix a corrupt rpm database.
Symptoms : All rpm commands ‘hang up’
Find and kill all process running rpm or up2date:
ps -aux |grep rpm
ps -aux |grep up2date
Remove all rpm database lock files.
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
This usually get things doing..
If its not working then first make a backup of the database:
cp -r /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm.copy
then rebuild the database
rpm –rebuilddb
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