Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 85619
Hung trying to do an rpm -ivh
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:51:51 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.8 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030212 Description of problem: Attemting to install apt-0.5.5cnc3-fr2.i386.rpm hung rpm. Remebering quirks with the previuos version I deleted the __db* files in /var/lib/rpm and then tried to kill it. This is backwards though :-). Anyway even a kill -9 will not make it die :-(. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.freshrpms.net download apt-0.5.5cnc3-fr2.i386.rpm 2. rpm -ivh apt-0.5.5cnc3-fr2.i386.rpm 3. Actual Results: rpm hangs Expected Results: apt installs Additional info: [root@nitremb22 rpm]# rpm -qa | grep rpm rpm-python-4.2-0.56 redhat-rpm-config-8.0.18-1 rpmdb-redhat-8.0.93-0.20030121 rpm-build-4.2-0.56 rpm-4.2-0.56 rpm-devel-4.2-0.56
FWIW, you're running on a buggy development version of rpm that is not yet released. What glibc and kernel packages? If kill -9 does not terminate, you're blocked in the kernel somehow.
kernel-2.4.20-2.24 glibc-2.3.1-38
If "kill -9" diesn't, this is probably a futex implementation problem. Try upgrading the kernel and glibc, as there are quite a few changes there over the last two weeks. You might also try rpm-4.2-0.70 at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.2