rpm won't run as root

[Net Llama!]

On 08/16/03 23:55, Keith Morse wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, 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.
>>
>>Any thoughts?

As luck would have it, i ran into something similar on one of my RH9 boxen 
yesterday.  Any rpm command (root or othewise) would hang, and the only 
thing that would kill it would be a kill -9.  Rebooting the box fixed it.

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