rpm won't run as root

[Tim Wunder]

On 8/15/2003 10:10 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:

> 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.
> 

This sounds like the same old problem RHL 8.0 had. rpm periodically 
choked (froze, locked-up, whatever). There used to be a bugzilla report 
on it at bugzilla.redhat.com... yeah:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73097 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72543
But they both are closed.

I haven't had any recent problems with rpm locking up on me.
$ rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.1.1-1.8x

Regards,
Tim