Rug/zmd in SLES10-SP1 is still a headache maker. Novell knows this, but I strongly suspect that we'll have to wait until SLES11 before we get anything improved. OpenSUSE now has zypper which works pretty good, and I think you can do it in SLES if you want, but I haven't tried.
One of the chief annoyances of rug is that the zmd.db file kept in /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db gets corrupted far too easily. And when that happens, rug can take HOURS to return anything. If it returns anything at all.
The fix for it is easy, stop zmd, delete the zmd.db file, restart zmd. Since I'm doing this fairly often, I've whipped up a bash script to do it for me.
nukezmd
One of the chief annoyances of rug is that the zmd.db file kept in /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db gets corrupted far too easily. And when that happens, rug can take HOURS to return anything. If it returns anything at all.
The fix for it is easy, stop zmd, delete the zmd.db file, restart zmd. Since I'm doing this fairly often, I've whipped up a bash script to do it for me.
nukezmd
#!/bin/shSimple, to the point. Works.
#
# For killing ZMD when it is clearly hung. An all too often occurance.
#
declare PIDZMD
# First get the PID of ZMD
printf "Getting PID... "
let PIDZMD=`rczmd showpid`
printf "$PIDZMD\n"
# Then unconditionally kill it
printf "Killing zmd hard... \n"
kill -9 $PIDZMD
# Remove the old, inconsistent database
printf "Nuking old database... \n"
rm /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db
# Restart ZMD, which will build a new, consistent database
printf "Restarting ZMD\n"
rczmd start