Description of problem: When performing very large updates (most often seen when updates are in excess of 2000+ RPMs, occasionally seen with updates of 400+ RPMs) RPM will do one or more of three things: a) Quit with no message, before finishing b) Hang (ps axuw will show a CPU load of 0.0% to 0.2% on a single core, single CPU Pentium IV, and will never finish. When running normally on the same system, load will always be in excess of 1% and will usually fluctuate between 5% and 95%, with the midpoint around 20%) c) Corrupt the database, necessitating a --rebuilddb. (If this occurs, any attempt to use RPM without doing a rebuild will ALWAYS result in RPM hanging.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All versions. How reproducible: Within parameters outlined, moderately reproducible - much more often than not, but not 100% of the time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm --update (very very large list of files) Actual results: One of the three listed above Expected results: Updating of files on disk Additional info: Manual cleaning of database, then rebuilding, seems to keep the risk of a hang to a minimum. When RPM just stops, the database seems to usually remain intact.
You are doing 2000+ package upgrades with /bin/rpm? If so, I feel your pain. ;-) I have done 6000+ package upgrades, and can probably help sort out whatever problems there are. No matter what, this bug report contains insufficient info to even attempt to diagnose whetever problems you are seeing. Splitting the 2000+ packages into smaller sets is likely the best overall solution, but that's just my opinion. Feel free to contact me at <n3npq> if you'ld like some private help.
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Reassigning to owner after bugzilla made a mess, sorry about the noise...
Quite likely a dupe of bug 248923 in essence (rpm eats too much memory) but insufficient data, and FC6 is EOL and wont be fixed anyhow.