From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020921 Netscape/7.0 Description of problem: I have a freshly installed (and updated with yum) Fedora Core 2 on an dual Intel Xeon system. I tried to upgrade gmp and gmp-devel to 4.1.3 and that requires a newer libstdc++, so I tried to install (not upgrade) libstdc++ from the new Fedora development branch (I found it on rpmfind.net) with: rpm -ivh libstdc++-...rpm The rpm process hung and used up one CPU, and I cannot kill it no matter what I tried. Even kill -9 as root does not work. I eventually had to press the power button and reboot the machine. After I rebooted the machine, I removed /var/lib/rpm/__db* and did a rpm --rebuilddb. I noticed that it did install the new packages...so I proceeded to upgrade gmp and gmp-devel. So far so good. But then I decided to remove the new libstdc++ and downgrade gmp back to the way it was. Here is what I got: [root@nox cheng]# rpm -vv -e gmp gmp-devel D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0 D: read h# 160 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8 D: read h# 480 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8 D: ========== --- gmp-4.1.3-2 i386/linux 0x1 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Requirename rdonly mode=0x0 D: read h# 394 Header sanity check: OK D: ========== DSA pubkey id b44269d04f2a6fd2 D: read h# 50 Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 4f2a6fd2 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Depends create mode=0x0 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename rdonly mode=0x0 D: Requires: libgmp.so.3 NO D: package python-2.3.3-6 has unsatisfied Requires: libgmp.so.3 D: ========== --- gmp-devel-4.1.3-2 i386/linux 0x0 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Depends error: Failed dependencies: libgmp.so.3 is needed by (installed) python-2.3.3-6 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Requirename D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages [root@nox cheng]# rpm -vv -e gmp gmp-devel --nodeps D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0 D: read h# 160 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8 D: read h# 480 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42 D: mounted filesystems: D: i dev bsize bavail iavail mount point D: 0 0x0808 4096 179336 96641 / D: 1 0x0003 4096 0 -1 /proc D: 2 0x0000 4096 0 -1 /sys D: 3 0x0009 4096 0 -1 /dev/pts D: 4 0x000c 4096 0 -1 /proc/bus/usb D: 5 0x0802 1024 87930 26174 /boot D: 6 0x000e 4096 2047332 2047331 /dev/shm D: 7 0x0811 4096 16704377 8961585 /home D: 8 0x0809 4096 5920428 3178485 /home2 D: 9 0x0807 4096 231540 129788 /tmp D: 10 0x0805 4096 1716728 1147740 /usr D: 11 0x0806 4096 202802 127767 /var D: sanity checking 2 elements D: computing 35 file fingerprints D: computing file dispositions D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42 D: ========== --- gmp-devel-4.1.3-2 i386-linux 0x0 D: erase: gmp-devel-4.1.3-2 has 18 files, test = 0 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys create mode=0x42 D: read h# 480 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Triggername create mode=0x42 D: erase: %preun(gmp-devel-4.1.3-2) asynchronous scriptlet start D: erase: %preun(gmp-devel-4.1.3-2) execv(/bin/sh) pid 2137 + '[' 0 = 0 ']' + /sbin/install-info --delete /usr/share/info/gmp.info.gz /usr/share/info/dir It hangs right here. Nothing can be done to kill it. kill -9 does not respond at all. Even /sbin/shutdown hangs and the only way to kill it is by pressing the power button. I tried to attach gdb to the process to see what's going on, but gdb hangs! How do a fix this short of a reinstall? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.3.1-0.3 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: see above Additional info:
If kill -9 does not terminate the process, then the process is hung in the kernel, signals are handled on syscall exit. Note that almost certainly something other than rpm is the root cause of this problem. Look for other signs of, say, hardware errors, memory failure, bleeding edge kernels, software mis-matches, etc. Only you know what has recently changed or happened on the machine. Certainly there are fixes short of reinstall. Reboot, by power cycling if necessary. During reboot, the command rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* will be run to remove stale locks that will always be left behind after an execptional event like power cycling, or kill -9 termintation. Running rpm -qa --last | more will show the most recent installs, some of which may have not been completed. Verify recent installs by doing rpm -V pkg1 pkg2 If verify reports no problems, then the pkgs are sucessfully installed. If there are problems, reinstall packages using rpm -Uvh --force pkg1*.rpm to complete the install.