rpm won't run as root

[Net Llama!]

On 08/14/03 19:46, RedMule.com wrote:

> On one of my RH9 boxes, when I do something like 'rpm -q -a moz*' it 
> runs fine when logged in as myself. But when I do that as root it hangs. 
> The process won't even kill unless I use -9.
> 
> Tried '--rebuilddb' but that hangs also when run as root and it can't be 
> run without permissions.

Add some -v to it.  You might also want to make sure that something else 
doesn't already have a lock on the rpm database.  root can do things with 
the RPM DB that a mortal user can't.  Does this behavior persist even after 
a reboot?


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