Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88164
Rpm still hangs when installing
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:49 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Rpm still seems to hang sometimes when installing software, requirnig the old pkill -9 rpm and rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*. I can't find the RH 8 bug, but his probably should be added to that bug. This happens in maybe 10% of my attempts to install software. Here's an output of lsof -p `pgrep rpm`, when rpm has hung: OMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME rpm 30091 root cwd DIR 22,66 4096 2 / rpm 30091 root rtd DIR 22,66 4096 2 / rpm 30091 root txt REG 22,66 77404 959623 /bin/rpm rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 103044 601525 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 30301680 471438 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 16384 211774 /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 52472 601546 /lib/libnss_files-2.3.2.so rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 298016 357774 /usr/lib/librpm-4.2.so rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 898968 357776 /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.2.so rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 349912 357777 /usr/lib/librpmio-4.2.so rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 26896 357745 /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0.0.0 rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 62272 357714 /usr/lib/libelf-0.76.so rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 79744 32584 /lib/tls/libpthread-0.29.so rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 37552 601558 /lib/librt-2.3.2.so rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 62128 357707 /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.2 rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 1318912 211775 /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 458752 211776 /var/lib/rpm/__db.003 rpm 30091 root mem REG 22,66 1531064 32580 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so rpm 30091 root 0u CHR 136,5 7 /dev/pts/5 rpm 30091 root 1u CHR 136,5 7 /dev/pts/5 rpm 30091 root 2u CHR 136,5 7 /dev/pts/5 rpm 30091 root 3u REG 22,66 31031296 211330 /var/lib/rpm/Packages rpm 30091 root 4u REG 22,66 45056 211332 /var/lib/rpm/Name rpm 30091 root 5u REG 22,66 5398528 211331 /var/lib/rpm/Basenames rpm 30091 root 6r REG 22,66 419593 456146 /var/cache/apt/archives/nmap_2%3a3.20-fr3_i386.rpm And here's ouput from gdb --pid=`pgrep rpm`: ttaching to process 30091 Reading symbols from /bin/rpm...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librpm-4.2.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librpm-4.2.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.2.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.2.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librpmio-4.2.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librpmio-4.2.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libelf.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libelf.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. [New Thread 1075856640 (LWP 30091)] Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 0xffffe002 in ?? () (gdb) gdb doesn't seems too helpful, other than maybe the last row (dunno what that is?). Would it be helpful to build the debug-enabled version of rpm and submit output from it? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.2-0.69 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -Uvh foo.rpm 2. 3. Actual Results: Process hangs after 100 % is completed, for example Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:nmap ########################################### [100%] but rpm never returns, and has to be killed by kill -9. Expected Results: rpm should've installed. Additional info:
Same as 87747 ?
occurs for me whenever i use apt-get to install RPMS, but strangely enough, not when i use synaptic.
I get the same problem but in about 10% of all rpm transactions even queries. I also experience the behaviour described in bug #83281 whenever I try to rebuild. Running 9.0, upgraded from 8.0
I also had this problem in RH8.0, and I'm also having it after upgrading to RH9. Interestingly, I can't remember having had this problem when using rpm functionality through the autoupdate utility(I hope that this is useful as a clue).
Try (Red Hat 8.0) rpm-4.1.1 or (Red Hat 9) rpm-4.2 packages, currently at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-{4.1.1,4.2} All known "hang" problems are fixed there.
this problem is becoming very common for me with 8.x boxes, especially high mghz cpus. why isn't it being sent out as a bug fix? i'm going to download the new versions and see how it goes.