Bug 67430
| Summary: | Weird files appear on root after rpm use. | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Petri Koistinen <pkoistin> | ||||||||
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||
| Version: | 1.0 | ||||||||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2002-06-26 21:44:09 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
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Description
Petri Koistinen
2002-06-25 02:09:59 UTC
These are components of an rpm database, normally resident in /var/lib/rpm. You appear to be running rpm without the macro %_dbpath configured. What does rpm --showrc | grep dbpath say? [petri@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]$ rpm --showrc | grep dbpath
-14: _dbpath %{_var}/lib/rpm
-14: _dbpath_rebuild %{_dbpath}
[petri@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]$
That looks "normal". How did you invoke rpm? Did you use --rcfile? I do nothing special just install or upgrade packages. For example I just installed vim with following line: [root@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]# rpm -ivh /tmp/vim-minimal-6.1-4.i386.rpm /tmp/vim-common-6.1-4.i386.rpm and then files /Packages and /Providename appeared. I removed those files and removed vim-packages and installed them again, and there where no new files on root directory. Actually I also wrote little script to install packages and remove them: [root@dsl-hkigw4l83 tmp]# cat testing #!/bin/sh rpm -ivh /tmp/vim-minimal-6.1-4.i386.rpm /tmp/vim-common-6.1-4.i386.rpm rpm -e vim-common vim-minimal ls -a / ./testing but there where no extra files on root. I guess there is some nasty bug lurking in rpm that doesn't show every time. I can't reproduce this problem, have never seen this behavior, so I'm gonna close. Reopen if you can reproduce the problem on demand. Created attachment 62584 [details]
Packages file found on root.
Created attachment 62585 [details]
Providename file found on root
OK, as you wish. I installed more packages and there them where again. It happens again randomly. Only hint I can give is that when this happened I was installing new packages that haven't never been before installed. (i.e. once installed and got removed later.) My guess is that there's something different about your particular machine, so I need to know exactly what you are doing on the command line, and how you are configured. For starters, what does rpm -V rpm say? And what is in these files /etc/rpm/macros ~/.rpmmacros [petri@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]$ rpm -V rpm ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/athlon-linux ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/i386-linux S.5..... /usr/lib/rpm/i386-linux/macros ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/i486-linux ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/i586-linux ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/i686-linux ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/noarch-linux [petri@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]$ su Password: [root@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]# rpm -V rpm ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/athlon-linux ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/i386-linux S.5..... /usr/lib/rpm/i386-linux/macros ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/i486-linux ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/i586-linux ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/i686-linux ....L... /usr/lib/rpm/noarch-linux .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/__db.003 [root@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]# cat /etc/rpm/macros %_arch i686 %_build_arch i686 %optflags -Os [root@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]# cat /root/.rpmmacros cat: /root/.rpmmacros: No such file or directory [root@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]# cat /home/petri/.rpmmacros cat: /home/petri/.rpmmacros: No such file or directory [root@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]# The 5 here S.5..... /usr/lib/rpm/i386-linux/macros indicates that the file has been changed. Can you save a copy of the file and reinstall rpm (to get a clean copy) in order to tell what has changed on your system? I saved the old file and remove it from /usr/lib/rpm/i386-linux/macros and installed rpm-4.1-1.31 package. Diff says there is no diffrence. Created attachment 62646 [details]
demo of rpm-bug, which I can repeat.
Now I can even repeat times bug. Much more convincing? With rpm-4.1-0.30, the files Packages and Providename appears on / whenever i try to update a package and there is an unsatisfied dependency. For example,it can be reproduced with rpm -Fvh samba-* to update from samba-2.2.4-5 to samba 2.2.5-2 that fails because of perl(Net::LDAP). I hope it can help. Hmmm, there should have been a difference in the files marked with '5'. <shrug> Ah, the reproducible iff unsatisifed dependency is what I needed to know. Could you install the (actually any) rpmdb-redhat package and try to reproduce? Reproduced, installing rpmdb-redhat will make problem disappear, better fix soonish. There's a better fix in rpm-4.1-0.33. Yes, it seems that this bug is now fixed. Thanks! |