[CentOS] rpm command freezing

Howdy,

If ever somebody here might have encountered this, the rpm -qa commands just
stuck for ages on my box ( honestly this is rhel 3 box).
I done rebuilding already the /var/lib/rpm/__db* as per KB article but to no
avail.

Any additional hints what's to look for?

One thing I notice w/c I think is weird is that we I losf the process of rpm
-qa that's freezing, it's looking somewhere instead of /var/lib/rpm/ I
supposed.

[root at server1 root]# ps aux | grep rpm

root     10385  0.0  0.0 50788 1860 ?        S    Aug22   0:00
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmq -q --all


[root at server1 root]# lsof -p 10385
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE     SIZE     NODE NAME
rpmq    10385 root  cwd    DIR    8,3     4096   295489 /root
rpmq    10385 root  rtd    DIR    8,3     4096        2 /
rpmq    10385 root  txt    REG    8,3    15672  1920708 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3   104436   558147 /lib64/ld-2.3.2.so
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG   0,56    16384  4804488
/mounted/etc/rpmdb/__db.001 (filer:/vol/v_s02/apps/sss)
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3   151168  1297631
/usr/lib64/librpmbuild-4.2.so
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3   327352  1297057 /usr/lib64/librpm-
4.2.so
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3  1025504  1296970 /usr/lib64/librpmdb-
4.2.so
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3   194208  1298156 /usr/lib64/librpmio-
4.2.so
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3    31880  1296910
/usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0.0.0
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3    69616  1297628 /usr/lib64/libelf-
0.94.1.so
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3   130096  1296872
/usr/lib64/libbeecrypt.so.6.1.0
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3    54072  3151883
/lib64/tls/librtkaio-2.3.2.so
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3    99685  3151880
/lib64/tls/libpthread-0.60.so
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3    58472  1296920
/usr/lib64/libz.so.1.1.4
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3    59280  1296873
/usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.2
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3  1562351  3151959 /lib64/tls/libc-
2.3.2.so
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG    8,3 32148976  3431399
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG   0,56  1318912  4804489
/mounted/etc/rpmdb/__db.002 (filer:/vol/v_s02/apps/sss)
rpmq    10385 root  mem    REG   0,56   663552  4804490
/mounted/etc/rpmdb/__db.003 (filer:/vol/v_s02/apps/sss)
rpmq    10385 root    0u   CHR  136,7                 9 /dev/pts/7
rpmq    10385 root    1u   CHR  136,7                 9 /dev/pts/7
rpmq    10385 root    2u   CHR  136,7                 9 /dev/pts/7
rpmq    10385 root    3r   REG   0,56 74817536 10338659
/mounted/etc/rpmdb/Packages (filer:/vol/v_s02/apps/sss)


Rgds,

jbt
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