Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78366
rpm freezes over
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: I tried to uninstall VMwareWorkstation-3.1.1 evaluation version. I run "rpm -ev package-name", it obviously did a few things (i've heard the HDD making noises), but then the rpm process was frozen: it didn't return the command-line prompt. I waited for a reasonable time (a few minutes). Nothing. Still frozen. The system was not busy at all. I tried CTRL-C. No reaction. I tried "killall rpm". Nothing. I tried "kill pid". Nothing. At last, i run "kill -9" on the pid and that killed it. However, now i'm worried about the status of my RPM database. :-( Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info: It is not the first time rpm freezes over with Red Hat 8.0 Obviously, something's very wrong with it. Please identify the bug.
Ok, now i'm trying to "rpm -Uvh" another package, and rpm is blocked. It does not install the package, it does not return an error. I have to kill -9 it.
rpm --rebuilddb doesn't work either. Again, only kill -9 solves it. Very bad. :-(
Ok, i rebooted the system, and now i can run rpm again. I'm rebuilding the database right now. "Reboot to fix" doesn't seem like Linux...
I knew this was a plot to make me run WinDoze! Yup, you need to do rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* after doing "kill -9", that's what the reboot did for you. Original problem was probably missed SIGCHLD, packages with that fix currently at ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/test-4.1 See bugzilla #73097 for details.