[ale] apt-rpm hanging and causes trouble

[John Wells]

I have a problem on a RH8 machine where apt-rpm hangs occasionally while
doing a rpm -Uvh.  If I kill the process, any other future rpm commands
will hang as well.  Only way I've figured out how to get it to work is
reboot and run apt-get again.

Can anyone shed some light?  Here's a gdb backtrace of a hung rpm exe:

Attaching to program: /bin/rpm, process 20051
0x08196bbe in select ()
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x08196bbe in select ()
#1  0x082105f4 in _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ ()
#2  0x080fc2a1 in __os_yield_rpmdb ()
#3  0x080c2f6f in __db_tas_mutex_lock_rpmdb ()
#4  0x080f3a87 in __lock_get_internal ()
#5  0x080f32bf in __lock_get_rpmdb ()
#6  0x080d5e58 in __db_cursor_rpmdb ()
#7  0x080e961a in __ham_open_rpmdb ()
#8  0x080d2fdf in __db_dbopen_rpmdb ()
#9  0x080d2d3e in __db_open_rpmdb ()
#10 0x08093726 in db3open ()
#11 0x0808ae4d in dbiOpen ()
#12 0x0808c129 in openDatabase ()
#13 0x0808c2b6 in rpmdbOpen ()
#14 0x080755bb in rpmtsOpenDB ()
#15 0x080756f5 in rpmtsInitIterator ()
#16 0x08075845 in rpmtsFindPubkey ()
#17 0x08079d9f in verifyGPGSignature ()
#18 0x08079f3c in rpmVerifySignature ()
#19 0x08083a4a in rpmReadPackageFile ()
#20 0x0806de53 in rpmInstall ()
#21 0x08048e4d in main ()
#22 0x0815ad62 in __libc_start_main ()

Thanks very much for the help.

John



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