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RPM hangs on install/erase/update when scripts are included

Hi!

I have suddenly got problems updating, erasing and instaling RPM-packages on my Fedora 8.
It just hangs there and the only way to release it, is by killing the process from another console or Ctrl-Z.

This problem only seems to occur on RPM-packages that has builtin post-, preinstall/uninstall scripts.

Like this:

Code:

bash# rpm -U -vvvv at-3.1.10-19.fc8.i386.rpm

.

.

.

D:  install: %post(at-3.1.10-19.fc8.i386) synchronous scriptlet start

D:  install: %post(at-3.1.10-19.fc8.i386)      execv(/bin/sh) pid 3257

+ touch /var/spool/at/.SEQ

+ chmod 600 /var/spool/at/.SEQ

+ chown daemon:daemon /var/spool/at/.SEQ

+ /sbin/chkconfig --add atd



[hang]

This seems to happen on all RPMs that have scripts included. It just sits there, doing nothing..

I have tried to

Code:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*; rpm --rebuilddb

a couple of times, without success.

Running strace on the pid of my hanging rpm process, shows this:

Code:

bash# strace -p 3353

Process 3353 attached - interrupt to quit

--- SIG_0 (Unknown signal 0) @ 0 (0) ---

futex(0x9307134, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2,NULL

I've been googling around a lot, but can't find any solution..
Please, help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by uber-mood (Post 2988318)

Hi!

Hello and welcome to LQ. Hope you like it here.

Quote:

Originally Posted by uber-mood (Post 2988318)

I have suddenly got problems updating, erasing and instaling RPM-packages on my Fedora 8.

So this started at some point? Can you trace back around what time it started? And check the logs for what changed? Any updates? BTW 0: can you install or upgrade rpm's if you use "--noscripts"? BTW 1: you're using Fedora 8 so it would be good to check and add a ticket to their bug tracker if the problem is not mentioned there already.

Yup. When running with the --no-scripts option, it doesn't hang..

Hmm, and when checking my yum.log to see when it last worked, it looks like my RPM problems started after 5:th Dec, when done with these updates/installs:

Code:

Dec 05 20:27:40 Updated: yum - 3.2.7-2.fc8.noarch

Dec 05 20:27:41 Installed: nss-tools - 3.11.7-10.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:42 Updated: sendmail - 8.14.2-1.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:43 Installed: gamin-python - 0.1.9-4.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:44 Installed: fuse - 2.7.0-8.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:48 Installed: pcsc-lite-libs - 1.3.3-1.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:49 Installed: fuse-libs - 2.7.0-8.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:50 Installed: ntfs-3g - 2:1.1120-1.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:50 Installed: irqbalance - 2:0.55-7.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:52 Installed: ntfsprogs - 1.13.1-8.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:52 Installed: smartmontools - 1:5.37-7.1.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:53 Installed: device-mapper-multipath - 0.4.7-11.fc7.i386

Dec 05 20:27:53 Installed: microcode_ctl - 1:1.17-1.38.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:53 Installed: tree - 1.5.0-8.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:54 Installed: usbutils - 0.71-2.1.i386

Dec 05 20:27:54 Installed: pam_pkcs11 - 0.5.3-25.i386

Dec 05 20:27:55 Installed: rng-utils - 1:2.0-1.14.1.fc6.i386

Dec 05 20:27:55 Installed: yum-updatesd - 1:0.7-1.fc8.noarch

Dec 05 20:27:56 Updated: sendmail-cf - 8.14.2-1.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:57 Updated: NetworkManager-glib - 1:0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3109.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:58 Updated: NetworkManager - 1:0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3109.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:59 Installed: pcsc-lite - 1.3.3-1.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:27:59 Installed: ccid - 1.2.1-3.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:28:00 Installed: ifd-egate - 0.05-19.i386

Dec 05 20:28:00 Installed: coolkey - 1.1.0-5.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:29:37 Installed: fakeroot - 1.6.4-15.fc7.i386

Dec 05 20:29:38 Installed: sparse - 0.4.1-1.fc8.i386

Dec 05 20:29:38 Installed: rpmdevtools - 6.4-1.fc8.noarch

Dec 05 20:29:38 Installed: unifdef - 1.171-6.fc8.i386

Can somebody here identify any of these packages that could cause this problem?

It's clear some yum and RPM stuff got upgraded. I'd definately get on the F8 user mailing list /bug tracker with this.

Now I don't know how mad your CLI skills are (so below may be horror to you) but until you fix it there's a way to extract scriptlets and run them. Here's an example how, maybe somebody is willing to make it a nice script. Say you got a rpm called "my.rpm". You can query it for what scripts it runs with 'rpm -qp --scripts my.rpm'. Since there's only a few possibilities you can find out which one you'll need with 'rpm -qp --scripts my.rpm|grep -n '^p.*scriptlet.*:$'' and it'll return something like this:

Code:

1:postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):

21:preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):

26:postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):

so this shows the postinstall script runs from line 2 to 21 and the preuninstall from line 22 to line 26. Now you can extract the postinstall script with 'rpm -qp --scripts my.rpm|sed -n '21q;2,21p'>/tmp/my.sh' and then 'sh /tmp/my.sh'. Dunno if that was helpful.

Thanks for your kind help!

I think I managed to solve the problem now, by simply uninstalling package "yum-updatesd". Directly after uninstall, RPM-command started to work again.

Strangely enough, RPM still works flawlessly after reinstalling "yum-updatesd" back to the system. Not sure what happened here.. :rolleyes: but it's working!

Well done fixing things yourself!