[NCLUG] rpm database hiccup

Mike Loseke mike at verinet.com
Wed Apr 23 11:42:37 MDT 2003


 So there I was, in the congo... I installed an RPM that got left behind
on an install (rusers-server-0.17-25.i386.rpm) on a redhat 9 machine. I
did so using the flags -ivh and it behaved normally - ran, hashes out to
100% then it kind of froze (the terminal). I had to kill -9 it after leaving
it sit for like an error. Now rpm can't really do much without freezing
in the same manner. I've tried a --rebuilddb with the same inaction. strace
output on the command ends here:

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stat64("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26963968, ...}) = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
read(3, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\6\0\7\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10"..., 512) = 512
close(3)                                = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26963968, ...}) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x805d000
brk(0x805e000)                          = 0x805e000
futex(0x405c154c, FUTEX_WAIT, 0, NULL

 I installed this same rpm on 2 other redhat9 machines without an issue.
Anyone seen behavior like this before and have a hint maybe on what to slap
it with?

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   Mike Loseke    | The more you know, the more you doubt.
 mike at verinet.com |                 -- Voltaire, 1694-1778



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