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@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@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