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Bug 1668378 - Under Microsoft WIndows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) - RPM issues after RPM DB rebuild [rhel7]
Summary: Under Microsoft WIndows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) - RPM issues after RPM DB r...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1668380
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rpm
Version: 7.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-22 15:38 UTC by James Hartsock
Modified: 2019-03-28 17:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-02-01 08:11:36 UTC
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Github Microsoft WSL issues 3939 0 None None None 2019-03-26 16:39:34 UTC
Github WhitewaterFoundry WLE issues 20 0 None None None 2019-03-04 03:55:46 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 3823982 0 None None None 2019-01-22 15:38:44 UTC

Description James Hartsock 2019-01-22 15:38:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
After an RPM database rebuild, like rpm --rebuilddb, commands like rpm & yum fail and/or hang.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take RHEL 7 container image, export & gzip it
   # podman pull registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7
   # podman run -it rhel7 sleep 99999
   # podman ps
   CONTAINER ID
   <ContainID>
   # podman export <ContainID> -o rhel7.tar
   # podman kill   <ContainID>
   # gzip rhel7.tar

2. Use https://github.com/DDoSolitary/LxRunOffline on Windows setup for WSL.
   C:\Temp>LxRunOffline-v3.3.2\LxRunOffline.exe install -n RHEL7 -d RHEL7 -f rhel7.tar.gz
   C:\Temp>LxRunOffline-v3.3.2\LxRunOffline.exe set-default -n RHEL7
   C:\Temp>LxRunOffline-v3.3.2\LxRunOffline.exe get-default
   RHEL7

3. yum/rpm comamands work, even able to install.

4. Rebuild rpmdb and first command fails, subsequent commands hang.


Actual results:
[root@win10 Temp]# rpm -q yum rpm
yum-3.4.3-161.el7.noarch
rpm-4.11.3-35.el7.x86_64

[root@win10 Temp]# rpm -qa | wc -l
163

[root@win10 Temp]# rpm --rebuilddb

[root@win10 Temp]# rpm -qa | wc -l
0 <--------------------------------------- Should be 163!

[root@win10 Temp]# rpm -qa | wc -l <------ hangs


Expected results:
Post rebuilddb commands should still work.


Additional info:
Comment 2 James Hartsock 2019-01-22 15:49:24 UTC 
Some public discussion going on at:

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/90
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3742
Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2019-02-01 08:11:36 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1668380 ***
Comment 4 James Hartsock 2019-03-04 03:49:43 UTC 
 === In Red Hat Customer Portal Case 02291494 ===
--- Comment by Hartsock, James on 3/3/2019 9:49 PM ---

Hayden's work-around does work for me too....

[root@win10 rpm]# rpm --rebuilddb
[root@win10 rpm]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/rpm/__db.001 count=0 bs=1 seek=1M
[root@win10 rpm]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/rpm/__db.002 count=0 bs=1 seek=1M
[root@win10 rpm]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/rpm/__db.003 count=0 bs=1 seek=1M

[root@win10 ~]# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.11.3-32.el7.x86_64
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