Bug 380451

Summary:	yum/rpm hangs on searching & parsing
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sai Kiran Kanuri <saikiranrgda>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	ffesti, james.antill, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Description Sai Kiran Kanuri 2007-11-13 17:12:55 UTC

Description of problem:
cron.daily rpm task, rpm -qa "package", yum search package, yum install
something, all these commands hang. No error messages. they just get stuck
there. Control-C also doesn't work.

We need to o a kill -9 to get rid of the process

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I just checked it on my PC. newly installed with additional repos enabled. I
have also installed livna release rpm. No updates done after that.

How reproducible:



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Actual results:
no output appears

Expected results:
queries should work

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Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2007-11-13 18:40:49 UTC

Once you kill any rpm-related process with kill -9, you'll need to clean up
rpmdb locks manually to resume normal functionality: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*

Comment 2 Seth Vidal 2007-12-07 04:08:46 UTC

closing as this seems to be a workaround.