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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: NPTL v userland v LT (RH9+custom kernel problem)
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:32:23 +0000 (UTC)
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Peter Svensson <petersv@psv.nu> writes:

>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. 

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

This is a FAQ. And a Bug in RH9.

	Regards
		Henning

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