[Gllug] RPM difficulties

[Xander D Harkness]

Following the conversation on apt-get, it seems appropriate to chase it with 
some rpm misery. 
 
I am trying to remove a package using the command rpm -e gdm 
 
This is the tail of the output from strace.  At the bottom it loops with a 
permanent timeout. 
 
Does anyone know what the problem is and if it is fixable? 
 
Kind regards 
Xander 
 
 
close(3)                                = 0  
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3  
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0  
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=25665536, ...}) = 0  
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET)            = 0  
read(3, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\6\0\7\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10"..., 256) =  
256  
close(3)                                = 0  
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3  
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0  
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=25665536, ...}) = 0  
brk(0x8268000)                          = 0x8268000  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000})  = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 2000})  = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 4000})  = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 8000})  = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 16000}) = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 32000}) = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 64000}) = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 128000}) = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 256000}) = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 512000}) = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)  
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)  
  

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