RPM Ever Hang? Aug 8th, 2003 7:48 am Sometimes, if an RPM operation is interrupted, the RPM database gets corrupted, and any subsequent RPM operation hangs the process. You can’t even ^C it. If you strace the process you’ll see the same system call getting invoked in an infinite loop. How to fix? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [root@bob root]# cd /var/lib/rpm/ [root@bob rpm]# ls Basenames __db.003 Installtid Provideversion Sha1header Conflictname Dirnames Name Pubkeys Sigmd5 __db.001 Filemd5s Packages Requirename Triggername __db.002 Group Providename Requireversion [root@bob rpm]# \rm __db* [root@bob rpm]# rpm --rebuilddb Voila.