Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:24:23 -0400 | | From | Dave Jones <> | | Subject | Re: futex hang with rpm in 2.6.17.1-2174_FC5 |
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:38:58AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > I had a dead nfs server that was causing some programs to pause, > in particular 'yum install foo' was paused. I kill -9'd the > yum related processes. > > I fixed up the nfs server and was able to un-mount the file system. > I subsequently killed many backed up updatedb and similar processes. > > Now, there are no rpm processes, but if I try 'rpm [anything]' it > hangs trying to open a futex: > > 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=41390080, ...}) = 0 > futex(0xb7ba178c, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL <unfinished ...> > > Is there any way to figure out what is causing this futex-wait?
The dead rpm you killed left behind locks in its databases. rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* and it should work again.
Dave
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