Bug 88250

Summary:	RPM sometimes hangs
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <mal>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Need Real Name 2003-04-08 07:01:32 UTC

RPM sometimes hangs during package upgrade
(rpm -Uvh ...)

rpm can not be killed by ctl-C.
Only by kill -9
Then , after rpm is killed, rpm does not work right. 
I need to reboot the computer to get it working.
Second time the same rpm -Uvh ... command work OK.
I have this with RedHat 8.0. No such problem with RedHat 7.2 or 7.3.
People say (I did not verify this myselft) that such rpm hangs
also occure in RedHat 9.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-04-14 14:55:37 UTC

Yes, there's a SIGCHLD missed in rpm-4.1-1.06.

FIxed in rpm-4.1.1, currently available at
    ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.1.1