From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: While making an attempt to upgrade an FC3 system to FC4 using the FC4 DVD, for reasons unknown the rpm keys are not installed, and so up2date breaks making the false claim that packages are unsigned (where in reality, the key is not found). An attempt to fix this situation by importing the relevant key hangs for no apparent reason like so: [root@phoebe rpm-gpg]# rpm --install ./RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras ^C [root@phoebe rpm-gpg]# An strace of the request ends as follows: open("/selinux/context", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 5 write(5, "root:object_r:user_home_t\0", 26) = 26 close(5) = 0 open("/selinux/context", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 5 write(5, "root:object_r:httpd_user_content"..., 35) = 35 close(5) = 0 open("/selinux/context", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 5 write(5, "root:object_r:texrel_shlib_t\0", 29) = 29 close(5) = 0 brk(0x8686000) = 0x8686000 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb7feb000, 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 munmap(0xb7fea000, 4096) = 0 open("RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 read(3, "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-"..., 96) = 96 close(3) = 0 open("RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fea000 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 read(3, "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-"..., 8192) = 2043 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 read(3, "", 6149) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 read(3, "", 8192) = 0 open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2528, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fe3000 read(4, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2528 read(4, "", 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 munmap(0xb7fe3000, 4096) = 0 open("/usr/share/locale/en_ZA.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_ZA.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_ZA/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb7fea000, 8192) = 0 dup(0) = 3 poll( ^^^^ Hangs here until ^C. The inability to install the correct keys has DoS'ed up2date, effective rendering all attempts to apply security updates useless. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: xxx Additional info:
Doh. It's --import for keys and not --install. Still cannot see the reason for the hang though, an error message should be thrown to say that the file is not an RPM.
RPM assumes a file is a manifest if it's not a package. As you can install keys and yum will do this for you in default setup, closinng.