Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote: > All of a sudden yum hangs on a Centos 4.5 (updated to the latest patch > before 4.6) when I try to use it. "clean metadata" didn't help. > The output of -d5 shows it gets to the point of "Reading Local RPMDB" and > then sits there. The process doesn't die, but doesn't seem to do anything > from that point on. strace shows this: futex(0xb76dcae8, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, > NULL > > I remember that futex hangs have been mentioned in the past when doing > "big" updates from 4.x to 4.y, but this wasn't the case here. > python-2.3.4-14.4 > python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1 > sqlite-3.3.6-2 > yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos > Kernel in use is not the latest 4.5 kernel, but one from 4.3. This > shouldn't matter in this case, shouldn't it? > > How can I resolve this? > I see that one suggestion is rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*. How do I rebuild it > then? > I found that cleaning the metadata doesn't remove the sqlite databases, so > I removed these from /var/yum/cache as well. The rebuilt databases were > different, but it didn't solve the problem. > > > Kai From the rpm man page: REBUILD DATABASE OPTIONS The general form of an rpm rebuild database command is rpm {--initdb|--rebuilddb} [-v] [--dbpath DIRECTORY] [--root DIRECTORY] Use --initdb to create a new database, use --rebuilddb to rebuild the database indices from the installed package headers. Remove the __db* files and then "rpm --rebuilddb" is usually sufficient unless you have non-standard locations for the database. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce