Bug 7628 - rpm gets into an infinite loop....
Summary: rpm gets into an infinite loop....
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-12-06 11:13 UTC by luca.formaggia
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-12-08 17:33:42 UTC
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Description luca.formaggia 1999-12-06 11:13:47 UTC
Rpm hangs and I need to stop it with kill -9.

I am sure I have done something wrong with one of the previous updates (but
I dont know what), yet I think rpm should be more 'foolproof'. Here the
lines I get when I want to upgrade a  package

rpm -Fhvv  lpr-0.46-1.i386.rpm
D: counting packages to install
D: found 1 packages
D: looking for packages to download
D: retrieved 0 packages
D: New Header signature
D: Signature size: 149
D: Signature pad : 3
D: sigsize         : 152
D: Header + Archive: 78392
D: expected size   : 78392
D: opening database mode 0x42 in //var/lib/rpm/
D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages
D:  requires: /sbin/chkconfig   satisfied by db file lists.
D:  requires: /bin/sh   satisfied by db file lists.
D:  requires: ld-linux.so.2  satisfied by db provides.
D:  requires: libc.so.6  satisfied by db provides.
D:  requires: /bin/sh  satisfied by db file lists.
D:  requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)  satisfied by db provides.
D:  requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)  satisfied by db provides.
D:   YES    A lpr = 0.46-1      B lpr >= 0.16
D:  requires: lpr >= 0.16 satisfied by added package.
D:   YES    A lpr = 0.46-1      B lpr >= 0.17
D:  requires: lpr >= 0.17 satisfied by added package.
D: installing binary packages
D: getting list of mounted filesystems
D: New Header signature
D: Signature size: 149
D: Signature pad : 3
D: sigsize         : 152
D: Header + Archive: 78392
D: expected size   : 78392
D: package: lpr-0.46-1 files test = 0
D:    file: /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd action: create
D:    file: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K60lpd action: create
D:    file: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K60lpd action: create
D:    file: /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S60lpd action: create
D:    file: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S60lpd action: create
D:    file: /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S60lpd action: create
D:    file: /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K60lpd action: create
D:    file: /usr/bin/lpq action: create
D:    file: /usr/bin/lpr action: create
D:    file: /usr/bin/lprm action: create
D:    file: /usr/bin/lptest action: create
D:    file: /usr/man/man1/lpq.1 action: create
D:    file: /usr/man/man1/lpr.1 action: create
D:    file: /usr/man/man1/lprm.1 action: create
D:    file: /usr/man/man1/lptest.1 action: create
D:    file: /usr/man/man5/printcap.5 action: create
D:    file: /usr/man/man8/lpc.8 action: create
D:    file: /usr/man/man8/lpd.8 action: create
D:    file: /usr/man/man8/pac.8 action: create
D:    file: /usr/sbin/lpc action: create
D:    file: /usr/sbin/lpd action: create
D:    file: /usr/sbin/lpf action: create
D:    file: /usr/sbin/pac action: create
D:    file: /var/spool/lpd action: create
D: running preinstall script (if any)
lpr
##################################################

And then nothing happens, the process eats up 90% of the CPU and runs
forever (until killed).

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-12-07 19:11:59 UTC
If you have installed rpm-3.0.4, you should go back to the production
rpm-3.0.3 release (unless you wish to help fix problems like this).

------- Email Received From  Luca Formaggia <Luca.Formaggia> 12/08/99 04:36 -------

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-12-08 11:16:59 UTC
Ah, that's a horse of a different color :-)

Instead of doing
	rpm -Fhvv  lpr-0.46-1.i386.rpm
try
	rpm -Uhvv  lpr-0.46-1.i386.rpm
Upgrading, rather than "freshening", will be simpler to debug.

Prefix the rpm command with "strace -o /tmp/xxx" and use ^C to stop after
a minute or two in order to see what rpm is looping on. If the file /tmp/xxx
contains a loop consisting of a sequence of lseek, read, read, then this
is a rpm database problem that will be fixed by doing "rpm --rebuilddb".

Otherwise, send me (jbj) the strace output and I'll try to figure
out what's happening.

------- Email From  Luca Formaggia <Luca.Formaggia> 12/08/99 12:30 -------
Attached to Bug # 7628.


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