RH8.0 RPM halt

[madcompnerd]

I have:
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Gigabyte 7GVA(I think) Mobo
w/ non-supported onboard VIA AC '97 audio
NVidia Geforce 4 MX Vid Card
60GB ATA 133 HD
Unknown floppy
Lite-on 32X12X10 CD-RW(Slave)
LG 16X DVD ROM(Master)

Running RedHat 8.0 on original kernel, 2.4.18-14 o believe. I use that because I can't install the srpm driver from Nvidia for the new kernels due to a lack of source CD's; and I don't feel like downloading them until I have to :).

I can't pinpoint when it does it, but occasionally when I am installing things by rpm it will lock up at the end, and today it even did it when I was uninstalling. It doesn't matter if I'm doing it from gui or konsole, it always does at random. It's really annoying, because I have to reboot to get it back. Is there some fix for this?
Stability is kind of a joke when you have to reboot in the middle of installations.
Still much better than Windoze.

[mdwatts]

I've noticed other members having similiar problems with rpm and Redhat.

Try Redhat's support/bugzilla website to see if it is a known problem and hopefully they have a fix posted.

[yolkmeister]

Here is one of the (many) posts on the subject from Redhat's Bugzilla site.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84037. The workaround to prevent rebooting is in here:
The "rpm -e" command will now hang indefinately and will have to be killed with a 'kill -9 <pid of rpm -e>'. If I now quit the rpm -qa on terminal 1. A repeat of the 'rpm -qa | more' command will now also hang. I now have to:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
rpm --rebuilddb
to get rpm -qa working again. Just doing the 'rpm --rebuilddb' without deleting the __db.0* files will result in a hang of the rpm command..
Greg

[madcompnerd]

Yea, I saw that stuff. Thanks guys. It says it's fixed in 4.2 and 4.1.1.

[yolkmeister]

It seems to be...I'm using 4.1.1 and haven't had that problem for a long time. Still using the old version though...there are no words to describe the pain. :)
Greg