Bug 92452 - rpm hangs when trying to uninstall mozilla-mail
Summary: rpm hangs when trying to uninstall mozilla-mail
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 9
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Nasrat
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-06-06 13:18 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-04-19 18:43:51 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2003-06-06 13:18:38 UTC
Description of problem:
when I give the command "rpm -e mozilla-mail"
it waits forever. Recently, I installed
eclipse (2.1 Community Edition from IBM)
and I updated the kernel, my system is up-to-date.
(I can see the blue check on the toolbar)

When I ran mozilla from command line or from
the toolbar, it would wait a bit and then do
nothing, removing "starting mozilla" button on
the toolbar as well. To workaround the problem,
I wanted to uninstall mozilla and install it 
again. But there were 2 dependencies, mozilla-mail
and mozilla-psm. I ran the add/remove package
tool and unclicked the 3 applications (mozilla,
mozilla-mail and mozilla-psm, hence no mozilla
applications were clicked). Then, I pressed "update"
button and it hanged. I tried to reboot from the GNOME
controls, but it didn't work, I had to reboot the machine
by hand (press the power button of the computer).

I started linux again and logged in. I inserted the redhat 9 CD and clicked 
mozilla-mail to install it. It said it was already installed,
and the same happened for mozilla-psm and mozilla. 
However, the toolbar mozilla icon was not working, it was replaced 
with a gnome icon (foot picture on it). When clicking this icon,
it says can't find application mozilla.

So, I decided to try "rpm -e mozilla-mail", but it hanged too.
I had to kill the process as root. I also tried "rpm -q -i mozilla-mail" but 
that also hanged.

I don't know what to do to have mozilla working again.

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


How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.(possibly) install Eclipse 2.1 community edition (from eclipse.org)
2.update to the latest kernel (as of May 6, 2003)
3.try to uninstall mozilla
    
    
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 stuart boreen 2003-06-08 02:52:11 UTC
I've had a lot of rpm problems on a laptop I upgraded from 8 to 9. I get hangs
doing rpm -e and I need to kill -9 the process. The process will show <1 sec of
cpu time. If I go to /var/lib/rpm and erase the __db.* files and do an rpm
--initdb I can get things to work again.
I note this is a laptop that is not run 24/7. Once when I was getting the rpm -e
hang I noticed that the cron.daily rpm script was running too. Could this be
part of the problem.
My laptop is fully up2date with errata as of june 7

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2003-06-24 19:51:28 UTC
Do
    rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*
    rpm -qa | grep mozilla
to see what mozilla packages you have installed.

Fore each installed mozilla package, verify that
files are actually there by doing (replace moz1, moz2,
... as appropriate)
    rpm -V moz1 moz2

If the verify reports damage, erase and reinstall (replace
moz1 as appropriate):
    rpm -e moz1
    rpm -Uvh moz1*.rpm

Does that get mozilla functioning?

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2005-04-19 18:43:51 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.  If this issue still occurs with current releases,
please reopen and set the release in which you've encountered the problem.


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