From mandrake-cooker  Tue Feb 05 20:02:12 2002
From: Frederik Himpe <fhimpe () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 20:02:12 +0000
To: mandrake-cooker
Subject: Re: [Cooker] rpm hangs: strace inside
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On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 15:32, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:
> On St, 2002-01-30 at 22:06, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When running this command in a local directory with Cooker RPMs, rpm
> > seems to hang:
> > rpm -Uvh *gnome* xscreensaver-4.00-2mdk.i586.rpm libgdk-pixbuf*
> > 
> And does `rpm -qa' work?
> My rpm stops working from time to to time and `rpm --rebuilddb' fixes
> it.

Yes indeed,rebuilddb solved the problem. Still I think it's very bad
that rpm just hangs in an infinite loop when there's something wrong
with the db, it should give a clear error message with the suggestion
how to fix it.

Frederik