rpm won't run as root

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > You could have prolly fixed this by grepping the output from lsof to see
> > what was currently locking the db.
>
> I didn't think of 'lsof' as I had used 'ps' and killed off everything
> that looked like rpm.
>
> Wouldn't you have thought rpm would have said something like "can't get
> lock" rather than just going comatose?

Yes, i'd think so too, but i've seen some less than desirable behavior
from rpm-4.x.  I had rpm 'lockup' on me on one of my RH9 boxes as well.

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