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How to fix RPM hanging

How to fix RPM hanging when you try to do anything

I started having this problem where apt would just hang. So I strace'd it, and found that it was freaking out trying to read the /var/lib/rpm/Packages file (or something). Eventually, I realized it was rpm that was cheezed, and not apt. Anyway, after many dead ends, I finally just googled for:

select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000})  = 0 (Timeout)

I found the above post. If only I'd googled to start with...

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UPDATE:
That link is dead. I think the post I wanted is now here.

Also, you can look here:
Repair an RPM database safely

Posted by jshare at February 15, 2003 11:03 AM