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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: When I do the following: Terminal 1: rpm -qa | more (and don't go thru all the output but leave it at page one) Terminal 2: rpm -e "some installed package" The "rpm -e" command will now hang indefinately and will have to be killed with a 'kill -9 <pid of rpm -e>'. If I now quit the rpm -qa on terminal 1. A repeat of the 'rpm -qa | more' command will now also hang. I now have to: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* rpm --rebuilddb to get rpm -qa working again. Just doing the 'rpm --rebuilddb' without deleting the __db.0* files will result in a hang of the rpm command. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -qa | more (on terminal 1) 2. rpm -e <some rpm> (on terminal 2, after starting rpm -qa on terminal 1) 3. Actual Results: The rpm database got corrupted Expected Results: I think it just should have deleted the rpm in question. Additional info: rpm --version: RPM version 4.1 (rpm-4.1-1.06) db4: db4-4.0.14-14
Yup, rpm-4.1 doesn't catch SIGPIPE. Workaround for now is to do rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* to remove stale locks.