From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: In doing the rhel3u3 updates, I've had many systems hang during the installation phase. No CPU activity, no disk activity, nothing. It seemed clearly like a locking issue. I've just discovered on one system that at precisely the time the up2date hung, rhn_check started running and it hung too. I don't know if it's the cause or another symptom. As a test I tried to just do an rpm -q and it hung too. There was no way to recover. I had to kill -9 all rpm related processes and remove the /var/lib/rpm/__* files. I'm left with many duplicate rpms in the database which I have to now go through and remove the old versions using the justdb switch. It's happened enough times for the U3 update that I've got a script to recover from it. I know this is not the most scientific bug report but it's not something easily debugged and it's also not something I want to duplicate since I run RHEL3 on my stable systems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.2.33-1 How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase. During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed. For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your support representative. You may be asked to provide detailed information on how this bug is affecting you.