Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 97002
all rpm/up2date actions stalled
Last modified: 2007-03-27 00:06:22 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Description of problem: Any actions (install,query, upgrade) related to rpm/up2date will become stalled. rpm -qa, rpm -ivh package, rpm -Uvh package They used to work VERY slowly...and now not at all strace -p pid of all stalled/slow rpm commands show them in the following state: strace -p 26429 futex(0x4060074c, FUTEX_WAIT, 0, NULL Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): the rpm package that comes with RH9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run rpm (any action, query, install, upgrade) 2. it will stall 3. strace -p Actual Results: found rpm in futex(0xXXXXXX, FUTEX_WAIT, 0, NULL Expected Results: the action requested to execute properly Additional info:
Please help out with this, not being able to up2date or use rpm to upgrade updated packages that were downloaded ain't fun.
Try rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* to remove stale locks. Does that fix? Missed SIGPIPE is usual cause of stale locks. That's fixed in rpm-4.2-1 (for Red Hat 9) and rpm-4.1.1 (for Red Hat 8.0) packages at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist
ah, yes that helped. up2date is now underway. thnx.