Bug 215901

Summary:	yum crash/freeze very often
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Frank Büttner <bugzilla>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
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Description Frank Büttner 2006-11-16 10:04:30 UTC

Description of problem:
When call yum update it often crash with segfault or it hangs at this point:
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
updates                                                        [2/4]
updates             100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
core                                                           [3/4]
core                100% |=========================| 1.3 kB    00:00
extras                                                               [4/4]
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 355 kB    00:00
updates: ################################################## 916/916
Added 46 new packages, deleted 1 old in 4.61 seconds
here it hangs:(

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-2.6.1-0.fc5

How reproducible:
when you call it 10 times it will crash/hang 2 times

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run yum update
 
Actual results:
often crash/hang

Expected results:
clean running

Additional info:
To get it working after an crash/haning I must delete the files /var/lib/rpm/db*

Comment 1 Ra P. 2006-11-16 19:36:26 UTC

I have the EXACT  same problem, it hangs at the exact same place..
Does the same thing with smart update. I tried rebuilding the db, removing those
files, they solve it for once, so I can run yum *once* and then second time I
run it, it goes back to the beginning (freezes again)

Comment 2 Frank Büttner 2006-11-16 19:45:04 UTC

I have tested it with an second FC5 system.(clean setup) But after apply all
updates the same. Without the updates all is ok. I think an update is buggy.

Comment 3 Kasper Dupont 2006-11-23 07:19:36 UTC

I think this might be a duplicate of bug #203233

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2006-12-03 18:32:31 UTC

Segafualts and loss of data are likely due to removing an rpmdb environment
without correcting other problems in the rpmdb.

FYI: Most rpmdb "hangs" are now definitely fixed by purging stale read locks when opening
a database environment in rpm-4.4.8-0.4. There's more todo, but I'm quite sure that a
large class of problems with symptoms of "hang" are now corrected.

Detecting damaged by verifying when needed is well automated in rpm-4.4.8-0.4. Automatically 
correcting all possible damage is going to take more work, but a large class of problems is likely
already fixed in rpm-4.4.8-0.4 as well.

UPSTREAM

Comment 5 Pavel Rosenboim 2006-12-18 08:32:50 UTC

Same here. In FC6 and in FC5 after some upgrade rpm became very unstable - I
have lots of hangs and crashes in all rpm-related tools.

Comment 6 Panu Matilainen 2007-07-17 12:04:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213963 ***