hang while using smart to install packages on SuSE system

[Jeff Johnson]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 4:52 AM, Mauricio Teixeira wrote:

> regus_patoff at razzolink.com wrote:
>
>> I don't think the problem was fixed. I am using 0.41-10 with SuSE  
>> 10.0
>> and smart still hangs occasionally. I just do the kill -9 and  
>> restart it
>

You *must* do
     rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
after *every* "kill -9" or you will hang on a stale lock.

hth

73 de Jeff