Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7628
rpm gets into an infinite loop....
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
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).
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@epfl.ch> 12/08/99 04:36 -------
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@redhat.com) the strace output and I'll try to figure out what's happening. ------- Email From Luca Formaggia <Luca.Formaggia@epfl.ch> 12/08/99 12:30 ------- Attached to Bug # 7628.