RPM ate my RAM :)

Mark Greenbank mark.greenbank at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 18:19:13 UTC 2005


Hi,

When I try and upgrade a particular package, shadow-utils-4.0.3-56.x86_64,
rpm starts to chew at the machine eventually exhausting my RAM and swap. Has
anyone else seen such a problem? Details are:

[root at localhost packages]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
[root at localhost packages]#

[root at localhost packages]# rpm -Uvh --test -vv
shadow-utils-4.0.3-56.x86_64.rpm
D: ============== shadow-utils-4.0.3-56.x86_64.rpm
D: Expected size:       588332 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(587892)
D:   Actual size:       588332
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0
D:  read h#     952 Header sanity check: OK

....

D: sanity checking 2 elements
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0
D: computing 281 file fingerprints
Preparing...                D: computing file dispositions
D:  read h#      14 Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 4f2a6fd2

and that's pretty much where it sits until I kill the process.

Any help would be appreciated,
Mark
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