Bug 74323 - rpm is blocked waiting for something.
Summary: rpm is blocked waiting for something.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: null
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-20 13:40 UTC by Dams
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-09-20 13:42:35 UTC
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Description Dams 2002-09-20 13:40:37 UTC
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Description of problem:
Since few days, rpm dont work anymore

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm --rebuilddb (or rpm -Uvh something.rpm..)
2. Wait a little.


Actual Results:  Nothing.

Expected Results:  should install a package or rebuild the db.. whatever..

Additional info:

[root@enclume ~]# strace rpm --rebuilddb
[snip a lot of stuff..]
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18980864, ...}) = 0
brk(0x805a000)                          = 0x805a000
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000})  = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 2000})  = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 4000})  = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 8000})  = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 16000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 32000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 64000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 128000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 256000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 512000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
[etc...]

Comment 1 Dams 2002-09-20 13:42:26 UTC
Forgot to say : 
- The (null) box is up2date.
- rpm is rpm-4.1-1.0
- rpm -qa works but not rpm -q <something>


Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2002-09-20 13:47:41 UTC
FIx is
	rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*

You ought to upgrade to rpm-4.1 final from ftp.rpm.org
as well.

Comment 3 Reuben Farrelly 2002-10-05 16:21:09 UTC
I'm also seeing this problem when installing RPM packages and I have an 8.0 
release (formerly 7.3) on which obviously has 4.1 version of RPM.  The 
workaround works - sure, but I don't think having to run the workaround every 
3 or 4 times I run RPM is real good..
What's worse is that when it does occur the whole process locks up and can't 
even be ctrl-c'd, I have to killall -KILL it to get my shell back.

This is an strace of an rpm -Uvh operation:

stat64("/var/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=672, ...}) = 0
stat64("/var/lib/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=416, ...}) = 0
stat64("/var/lib/rpm", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=576, ...}) = 0
access("/var/lib/rpm", W_OK)            = 0
access("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", F_OK)   = 0
access("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", F_OK)   = 0
brk(0x8279000)                          = 0x8279000
open("/var/lib/rpm/DB_CONFIG", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or directory)
open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0
close(3)                                = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40233000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.002", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1310720, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40235000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.003", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
mmap2(NULL, 360448, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40375000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9949184, ...}) = 0
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET)            = 0
read(3, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\6\0\7\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10"..., 256) = 256
close(3)                                = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9949184, ...}) = 0
brk(0x827a000)                          = 0x827a000
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000})  = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 2000})  = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 4000})  = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 8000})  = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 16000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 32000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 64000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 128000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 256000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 512000}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0} <unfinished ...>



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