Hello,

I am trying to rpm a file and it doesn't work. When I type rpm -i
MySQL-server-4.1.9-0.i386.rpm, it just sits there and that's it. Any
ideas?

thanks,
webtekie

webtekie@gmail.com wrote:

> I am trying to rpm a file and it doesn't work. When I type rpm -i
> MySQL-server-4.1.9-0.i386.rpm, it just sits there and that's it. Any
> ideas?

-v Print verbose information - normally routine progress messages
will be displayed.

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webtekie@gmail.com wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I am trying to rpm a file and it doesn't work. When I type rpm -i
| MySQL-server-4.1.9-0.i386.rpm, it just sits there and that's it. Any
| ideas?

You can try rebuilding the rpm database (rpm --rebuilddb), though that
may have absolutely nothing to do with your problem. I would take the
previous poster's suggestion of turning verbose mode on to see where the
process is hanging.

Sometimes removing the __db files from /var/lib/rpm helps too.

Jeff

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:34:09 -0800,
Jeff Krimmel <madscientist03abc@hotmail.com> wrote:


>
> webtekie@gmail.com wrote:
>| Hello,
>|
>| I am trying to rpm a file and it doesn't work. When I type rpm -i
>| MySQL-server-4.1.9-0.i386.rpm, it just sits there and that's it. Any
>| ideas?
>
> You can try rebuilding the rpm database (rpm --rebuilddb), though that
> may have absolutely nothing to do with your problem. I would take the
> previous poster's suggestion of turning verbose mode on to see where the
> process is hanging.
>
> Sometimes removing the __db files from /var/lib/rpm helps too.
>

That would help because some Berkely DB implementations makes locks
persistent by storing the lock in one of the __db files.

Villy

"David Dorward" <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cug9tp$hcs$2$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
> webtekie@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I am trying to rpm a file and it doesn't work. When I type rpm -i
>> MySQL-server-4.1.9-0.i386.rpm, it just sits there and that's it. Any
>> ideas?
>
> -v Print verbose information - normally routine progress messages
> will be displayed.

This can happen when the RPM database is locked. Check if any other RPM
processes are running with "ps auxwww", make sure they're all dead, and try
again with "-v -v" added. If it's still hanging, you need to delete the lock
files at /var/lib/rpm/_*, maybe use "rpm --rebuilddb" to clean up any
debris, then try again.

Your system could also be overwhelmed and swapping like crazy....