Guest klinger2004 Posted October 26, 2003 Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 Sometimes I notice that when installing an rpm, using -Uvh, it works fine but never returns to the # prompt. For example, today I updated Gaim from 0.70 to 0.71 as follows... [root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 eric]# cd RPMs [root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 RPMs]# ls AdobeAcrobat Browsers FTP k3b-0.10 OpenOffice_11 YUM Apt-Get CrossOver 2 Gaim MoneyDance2003 RedHat_up2date audacity FlashMozilla Gimp125 NVIDIA_driver VMware 4 [root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 RPMs]# cd Gaim [root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 Gaim]# ls gaim-0.71-1mdk9.1.i586.rpm gaim-0.71-1rh9.i386.rpm [root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 Gaim]# rpm -Uvh gaim-0.71-1rh9.i386.rpm warning: gaim-0.71-1rh9.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 883c1c14 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:gaim ########################################### [100%] Then the cursor just sits there, it never returns to the "[root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 eric]# " prompt. It doesn't do it all the time, but so far I've seen this about 4 times, everything else is fine, Gaim is fine and showing 0.71 as version. K3B was another package that did this. I'm almost certain this is ok.... isn't it? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Can't really shead any light to what the problem is, but I've seen that countless times in RH, the rpm db just hangs, never really figured out why or how to fix it, other than kill the rpm process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 It is quite possible that another process has locked the rpm databse. You could check this by running ps aux. Anyway, your program should install fine anyway. Just make sure that you don't, for example, have an update program running while you execute rpm -Uvh or -ivh - for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest klinger2004 Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 Cool - thanks, Guys. I figured it wasn't that big of a deal, but I like to make sure. Thanks again. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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