Make RPM Work Again
You’re facing a dilemma: RPM has stopped working on your box. You run the command, and it just hangs. Nothing happens. This is a quick fix that has worked several times for me in the past:
First, become root on the server by running:
su -
Once you have become root, then run the following:
killall -9 rpm
rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
There are 2 underscores in the rm command followed by an asterisk. You may be prompted to delete the following files:
/var/lib/rpm/__db.001
/var/lib/rpm/__db.002
/var/lib/rpm/__db.003
If you are, delete them and RPM should be working once again.
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