Re: [Wlug] rpm lock-up

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Josh Huber wrote:

Bill Mills-Curran <subssn594@charter.net> writes:

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Now, that user account can no longer do any rpm commands from any session -- it always hangs. You can kill -9 the existing rpm processes, but nothing I've tried helps until reboot.

Perhaps there is some kind of stale lock file sitting around?

I don't use rpm, but I'd suggest running strace on the rpm command to see what the problem might be.

strace rpm <args>

-- Josh Huber

Josh, Just by coincidence, I just ran "strace -ppid" on the "locked-up" process. It's in a select/timeout loop. I just tried Charles Anderson's suggestion (his email came shortly after yours). That cured the lock-up. Now on to see if I can get something done... Thanks, Bill