Bug 5269

Summary: rpm hangs when trying to install packages
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: lars
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Hardware: i386   
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a makefile to reproduce none

Description lars 1999-09-21 14:52:25 UTC 
rpm randomly hangs when trying to install packages. It
either hangs completely, looping over code like (strace)
read(4, "\0\236\0\0\210m\33\0\0\0\0\0\1\0"..., 16) = 16
lseek(4, 1797512, SEEK_SET)             = 1797512
read(4, "\0\236\0\0\210m\33\0\0\0\0\0\1\0"..., 16) = 16
lseek(4, 1797512, SEEK_SET)             = 1797512
read(4, "\0\236\0\0\210m\33\0\0\0\0\0\1\0"..., 16) = 16
lseek(4, 1797512, SEEK_SET)             = 1797512
read(4, "\0\236\0\0\210m\33\0\0\0\0\0\1\0"..., 16) = 16
lseek(4, 1797512, SEEK_SET)             = 1797512
read(4, "\0\236\0\0\210m\33\0\0\0\0\0\1\0"..., 16) = 16
lseek(4, 1797512, SEEK_SET)             = 1797512

/proc/4462/fd/4 -> /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

Or it terminates and reports "freelist corrupt", and after a
--rebuilddb installs fine.

This happens on a larger set of machines and not entirely
repeatable. Do you need a copy of the rpm database or
anything?
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-09-21 20:03:59 UTC 
The infinite loop is the "freelist corrupt" bug with a different
manifestation. Try "rpm --rebuilddb" and you should be OK.

If you (or anyone else) can reproduce this problem with a known
sequence of commands starting from rebuilt and saved /var/lib/rpm/*
databases, please send me the data so I can get this problem fixed.
This problem is very hard to reproduce without a known good starting
database.
Comment 2 Kris Raney 2003-07-01 18:59:56 UTC 
Created attachment 92708 [details]
a makefile to reproduce

This makefile starts off with an initdb, and recreates the problem pretty
reliably. The RPMs are from redhat 7.3 and 8.0, and are all available on
rpmfind.net.