Guess what? It's a bug in RPM that shipped with RH 8.0. :-(
>From (http://www.rpm.org/errata/):
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version 4.1
... Yes, there was a missed SIGCHLD in rpm-4.1 that "hangs" rpm. Most of
the rest of the problems I'm hearing and seeing have to do with "kill -9"
and other exceptional events. The rules have changed: ATM it's up to the
user to clean up after "kill -9". Yes, the change in rules is messy and
confusing. -- Jeff Johnson, rpm-list hosted at Red Hat, 26 Nov 2002
Some people are experiencing symptoms of a 'hung' process. See: here for a
discussion and fix.
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Essentially, it's a manual process to fix it (remove some lockfiles).
There does not appear to be an official RPM fix for this yet (i.e., can't
update RPM and have it magically fixed). :-(
So this is clearly not SIS's fault, but it just happens to occur there
(for me, with high frequency). I'll try to get the bad behavior to happen
again and see if removing the extra locks seems to fix the problem.
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