Bug 75696

Summary:	RPM 4.1-1.06 non-responsive to abort (control C) signal
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Doug <bitbasher>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Doug 2002-10-11 05:57:03 UTC

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Description of problem:
When using rpm in RedHat 8.0, many operations that take a long time are not 
interruptable with the Control-C signal to abort the process.  Many times rpm 
does not acknowledge the Control-C until it's actually almost finished.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run something good like "rpm -qa"
2. As soon as it starts displaying all the installed packages, press CONTROL-C
3. (rpm will not stop)	

Actual Results:  In my case, rpm does NOT stop but continues to run until the 
end of the entire list of all installed packages.  Banging repeatedly on 
Control-C does not seem to help.
	

Expected Results:  When Control-C is pressed, rpm should stop/abort immediately.

Additional info:

In some cases, where rpm doesn't display large amount of output, but it's REAL 
busy doing stuff (like in "rpm -Vv kernel-sources", pressing control-c is 
useless.  If I need my console back, I can't get it, and I either have to start 
a new vt and kill -9 rpm, or just wait it out.

Not a serious bug, but VERY frustrating!  :)

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-10-11 14:00:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73193 ***

Comment 2 Doug 2002-10-12 05:19:52 UTC

Oops.  I *did* search to see if I was making a duplicate, but for some reason 
my search criteria didn't match bug 73193.  Could be because the summary 
of, "rpm-4.1 hangs: unresponsive to ^C signals" doesn't directly match "rpm" 
or "control-C" or "signal" as atomic words, which is what I think I searched on.

Oh, well, at least it's not just my system! :)
BB.