try strace -f rpm -vv -V rpm 2013/7/1 ken <gebser at mousecar.com> > On 07/01/2013 02:46 PM Eero Volotinen wrote: > >> try using strace -p PID-OF-YUM and output to mailinglist >> > > Here's the last few lines of strace: > > ... > open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.002", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 > fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 > mmap2(NULL, 1318912, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb79db000 > close(4) = 0 > stat64("/var/lib/rpm/__db.003"**, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=450560, > ...}) = 0 > open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.003", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 > fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 > mmap2(NULL, 450560, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb796d000 > close(4) = 0 > stat64("/var/lib/rpm/Packages"**, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=110592000, ...}) = 0 > open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 > fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 > read(4, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\**6\0\10\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10\0\**0YV\0\0"..., > 512) = 512 > close(4) = 0 > open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 > fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 > fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=110592000, ...}) = 0 > futex(0xb79b56ac, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL > > It hangs there. > > Significantly, this 'rpm' command hangs also: > > # rpm -vv -V rpm > D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv > D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 > > So the problem may well be with 'rpm'. > >