Re: NPTL v userland v LT (RH9+custom kernel problem)

[Pau Aliagas]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Peter Svensson wrote:

> I have had rpm lock up on me a few times. I think it was waiting on a 
> sempahore or some other synchronization event. After killing the process 
> (after several hours) no rpm transactions could be completed, they all 
> hanged at the same point. The only way to get rpm to work again was to 
> reboot the system. 
> 
> Not sure if it is related or not though. I never thought to try it as 
> non-root.

There are some temporary files locking the normal operation.
$ rm /usr/lib/rpm/__*db*
will do the trick.

Pau

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