Bug 50992

Summary:	rpm -qf hangs on some programs
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Kjartan Maraas 2001-08-06 10:51:36 UTC

Description of Problem:

When doing rpm -qf /usr/bin/* I found that rpm hangs on some programs. For
example "rpm -qf tic" makes it hang. strace says it's getting timeout from
select().
How Reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qf /usr/bin/tic
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:

Hang

Expected Results:

package containing /usr/bin/tic

Additional Information:
None

Comment 1 Kjartan Maraas 2001-08-06 11:04:17 UTC

And of course, if I had done my homework I would have known that this was fixed
by removing /var/lib/rpm/__db*

Fixed it for me.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-06 11:16:26 UTC

FWIW, this should be fixed for everyone now, in rpm-4.0.3-0.87
and later. Homework is a PITA :-)