Description of Problem:

RPM just hangs getting stuck.

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

Unknown whatever the default version is for redhat 8.

How Reproducible:

It's happenning often, but can't figure out the routine that causes it to hang.

Additional Information:

last bit of strace log before it hangs..
	
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
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) = 0x40013000
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) = 0x403f8000
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) = 0x40538000
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=40587264, ...}) = 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=40587264, ...}) = 0
brk(0x805d000)                          = 0x805d000
brk(0x805e000)                          = 0x805e000
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 ...>