On Thu, Oct 16, 2003, Dennis McRitchie wrote:
> [...]
> But the program hangs. "ps -ef" after several minutes reveals:
> > ps -ef|grep rpm
> psr 20444 12122 0 17:00 pts/3 00:00:00 /usr/psr.oit/redhat9/lib/openpkg/bash
> /usr/psr.oit/redhat9/lib/openpkg/rpmdb --build
> psr 20682 20444 0 17:00 pts/3 00:00:00
> /usr/psr.oit/redhat9/lib/openpkg/rpmq -q --define _dbpath
> /usr/psr.oit/redhat9/RPM/DB/ -- gpg-pubkey-63c4cb9f-3c591eda
> [...]
>
> It is apparently the child process that is hung, as I can kill the parent with "kill
> 20444". Can't kill the child
> without using "kill -9 20682".
In such a situation try to use "strace -p 20682". It is usually able to show you the
last system call in which it is now hanging.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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