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From rpm-list-admin@freshrpms.net  Fri Aug 16 11:49:50 2002

Once upon a time, Daniel wrote :
> > Well, the 7.3 binary should work as long as you install the "rpm404"
> > (IIRC) compatibility library. The only problem I have with some rpm 4.1
> > versions is that it sometimes hangs at the and of operations (-e, -i,
> > -F or -U) and the only workaround is to kill it, "rm -f
> > /var/lib/rpm/__*" and try again.
>
> Well, you're lucky if it sometimes works for you.  Mine hang all the
> time, have to kill 'em with -9.  And after that, rpm doesn't work at all
> (hangs right after i run the command, prints nothing).  Have to reboot
> the machine to get anything rpm-related to work again.
After that "kill -9", removing the "__*" files in /var/lib/rpm/ and trying
again works 100% of the time for me. Did you try that?
Matthias
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