Bug 91294 - rpm hangs when installing packages from graphical user interface
Summary: rpm hangs when installing packages from graphical user interface
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-05-20 21:23 UTC by Katherine Hord
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-05-22 00:08:40 UTC
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Description Katherine Hord 2003-05-20 21:23:49 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; YComp 5.0.2.4; 
Hotbar 4.1.8.0)

Description of problem:
When attempting to install a package ("file.rpm") by double-clicking on it from 
the graphical user interface, rpm begins (a screen indicates that a search of 
currently installed packages is under way, and then there is an indication that 
the package is queued for installation).  After clicking okay, rpm hangs.  I 
ran up2date as suggested by Red Hat technical support but the problem persists.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See above.
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Actual Results:  rpm hangs.  Must close rpm window and choose to kill 
application.

Expected Results:  The package should be installed.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-05-22 00:08:40 UTC 
The quick fix is to do
    rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
to remove stale locks.

Both rpm-4.2-1 (Red Hat 9), and rpm-4.1.1 (Red Hat 8.0)
fix problems with leaving stale locks. Both are available
at
    ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist
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