Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76464
rpm does not return from Upgrade command
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: get transcode-0.6.2.20021021 tarball from here: http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/pre/ Rebuild it: rpmbuild -ta --rebuild --target=athlon transcode.... Then install the binary: rpm -Uvh transcode.... The last command does not return the prompt in xterm. I tried to kill the rpm process, but it does not respond; i didn't tried a -9 yet. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.rebuild transcode-0.6.2.20021021 2.install (-U) the binary 3. Actual Results: rpm command is frozen Expected Results: rpm should upgrade the package Additional info:
Ok, i "kill -9"'ed rpm, run a "rpm -qa | grep transcode", and sure thing, there were two versions installed. I removed dvd::rip first (it depends on transcode), then did a "rpm -ev --allmatches transcode". Then i attempted again to install my newly built package. It worked. I reinstalled dvd::rip afterwards... Nothing suspicious so far. But i wonder if my RPM database is still healthy. :-(
Doing --rebuilddb with rpm-4.1 guarantees (by checking signatures and digests of headers, and rebuilding all other indices) a "healthy" database, for some pretty meaningful definition of "healthy".