Bug 47170

Summary: RPM 4.0.3-0.54 gets stuck on database operation.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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OS: Linux   
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A traceback generated by attaching gdb to the errant rpmd process. none

Description Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-07-03 19:10:16 UTC 
Description of Problem:When rebuilding the RPM database with --rebuilddb, rpmd gets stuck in an infinite select() loop.


How Reproducible:This might be specific to my workstation.


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Actual Results:rpmd gets stuck in a select() loop, apparently forever.


Expected Results:rpmd completes the operation.


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Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-07-03 19:14:07 UTC 
Created attachment 22610 [details]
A traceback generated by attaching gdb to the errant rpmd process.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-07-11 14:24:45 UTC 
The /var/lib/rpm/__db.nnn files are removed before opening the db environment
in rpm-4.0.3-0.66. Presumably, that fixes this problem, but please reopen if
not.