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Old 01-22-2003, 11:23 PM   #1
ubien
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rpm broken for root?


I was installing some RPMs last night and one of them failed. Now RPMs only work for other users and not root. I can type rpm -qa lib on a different user and it will work, but if i type that as root it just sits there. Weird.

--update-- rebooting seemed to fix it. I allready did a killall -9 rpm so I'm not sure what was still running. I really hate having reboot be the answer to something.

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Old 01-23-2003, 01:07 AM   #2
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in future add a couple of -v's to the ommand line to get useful debugging information
 
  


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