Re: RPM functions taking forever

From: Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez (manuaroste_at_yahoo.es)
Date: 03/03/04

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    Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:38:42 +0100 (CET)
    
    

     --- Edward Dekkers <edward@tripled.iinet.net.au>
    escribió: > Richard S. Crawford wrote:
    >
    > > I tried to remove an rpm from my system (RH 8)
    > earlier this evening, but
    > > the computer seemed to have stalled. I killed the
    > process, and began
    > > executing rpm --rebuilddb. So far it has taken
    > nearly ten minutes to do
    > > this, and I'm hearing no disk activity on my
    > computer.
    > >
    > > What could be causing this delay? Is it something
    > that I should be
    > > panicking about?
    > >
    >
    > Just as well you put down you're using RH8.
    >
    > This is a know bug and due to stale RPM lock file.
    >
    > The answer is here:
    >
    > http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/
    >
    > Regards,
    > Ed.
    >

    Ed, can you tell me if this bug could be avoid
    removing packages with:
    apt-get remove package.

    Thanks, Ed,
    Cheers
    >
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