Hi. For the last few days, I have been unable to update on one machine. Initially I thought it was just the GUI updater that was affected, but I have found that even urpmi --auto-update no longer works.
Using --debug, all seems to be fine up to the point where it opens the rpm db. It then just stops - no errors.
opening rpmdb (root=, write=)
[wait forever - or at least long enough for me to give up!]
A similar problem occurs if I try to edit media.
The machine did run out of space on / a week or so ago, and /var does not have its own partition so this may be related, although there is now space available again.
I have (unwisely?) tried an rpm --rebuilddb and this has not helped.
Any ideas?