On Oct 3, 2006, at 11:11, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Download and install the latest versions of sqlite and python-sqlite > using RPM. The problem is that rpm itself is hanging (even a simple "rpm -q sqlite" would hang). I did a "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*; rpm -vv rebuilddb" a second time and that finally fixed the problem. Now rpm is happy and so is yum. Everything is back to normal. The update just finished successfully. Thanks, Alfred