[CLUE-Tech] Re: rpm command hangs

[Jason S. Friedman]

Thanks for confirming.  I ran this on my "development" box so no real harm done.  A strange thing happened after this.  I woke up this morning and it was still hung.  I killed it and nothing seems to be hurting as a result, on that development box.  But, my "production" box had died sometime in the night.  No response to the keyboard.  I had to reboot.  Never experienced that before.

> I feel your pain - with the last 3 Red Hat distros I have tried, I have 
> yet to successfully upgrade glibc.  The RPM command always dies or errors 
> out when I try, and I have to then rebuild the show system because all the 
> programs quit working and I'm not smart enough to get around it.  I just 
> suggest staying away from the glibc upgrades :)
> 
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> 
> > $ rpm -Fvh *rpm
> > Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> > 1:glibc-common           ########################################### [  6%]
> > 2:glibc ########################################### [ 12%]
> > Stopping sshd:[  OK  ]
> > Starting sshd:[  OK  ]
> > 3:postgresql-libs ########################################### [ 18%]
> > 4:postgresql-tcl ########################################### [ 24%]
> > 5:postgresql ########################################### [ 29%]
> > 6:postgresql-perl ########################################### [ 35%]
> > 7:glibc-devel ########################################### [ 41%]
> > 8:glibc-debug ########################################### [ 47%]
> > 9:glibc-debug-static ########################################### [ 53%]
> > 10:glibc-profile ########################################### [ 59%]
> > 11:glibc-utils ########################################### [ 65%]
> > 12:postgresql-contrib ########################################### [ 71%]
> > 13:postgresql-devel ########################################### [ 76%]
> > 14:postgresql-jdbc ########################################### [ 82%]
> > 15:postgresql-odbc ########################################### [ 88%]
> > 16:postgresql-python ########################################### [ 94%]
> > 17:postgresql-server ########################################### [100%]
> > 
> > And then, nothing, or at least nothing for the last 20 minutes.
> > 
> > $ ps -efl | grep rpm
> > 100 S root     25804  3108  2  68   0    -  3081 pause  04:05 pts/9 00:00:42 rpm -Fvh glibc-2.3.2-4.80.8.i686.rpm glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.i386.rpm glibc-de
> > 000 S root     26001 13503  0  73   0    -   940 pipe_w 04:39 pts/12 00:00:00 grep rpm
> > 
> > The "top" command shows nothing unusual running.