RPM not responding

[Tom Ward_1]

I was installing some updates with rpm on a linux blade running RedHat 8, and it hung while updating glibc.

The rpms are okay. I've used them on several other systems without problems and the checksums match. Now any attempts to run rpm hang.

rpm -Vvva shows
[root@blade0s3 init.d]# rpm -Vvva
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0

and that's as far as it gets. Any ideas?

The kernel is 2.4.18-14. That's on the list to update, btw. I can't say what rev rpm is at, since it's fubared.

I've yet to try rebooting. Anyone ever seen this before?

[Balaji N]

you updated glibc?

wont it break the complete system dependency. since all programs are linked against glibc and the glibc version is no longer there, wont ur machine become useless.

just curious.
-b-

[Vitaly Karasik_1 · Accepted solution]

probably you have this problem:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73097

solution:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

rpm --rebuilddb


Rgds,
Vitaly

[Dan Beeler_2]

Tom

cd /var/lib/rpm
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm -vv --rebuilddb (if you use the -vv you get verbose output...which is cool)


--dan