Sometimes I notice that when installing an rpm, using -Uvh, it works fine but never returns to the # prompt.

For example, today I updated Gaim from 0.70 to 0.71 as follows...

[root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 eric]# cd RPMs
[root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 RPMs]# ls
AdobeAcrobat Browsers FTP k3b-0.10 OpenOffice_11 YUM
Apt-Get CrossOver 2 Gaim MoneyDance2003 RedHat_up2date
audacity FlashMozilla Gimp125 NVIDIA_driver VMware 4
[root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 RPMs]# cd Gaim
[root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 Gaim]# ls
gaim-0.71-1mdk9.1.i586.rpm gaim-0.71-1rh9.i386.rpm
[root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 Gaim]# rpm -Uvh gaim-0.71-1rh9.i386.rpm
warning: gaim-0.71-1rh9.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 883c1c14
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:gaim ########################################### [100%]


Then the cursor just sits there, it never returns to the "[root@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 eric]# " prompt.

It doesn't do it all the time, but so far I've seen this about 4 times, everything else is fine, Gaim is fine and showing 0.71 as version. K3B was another package that did this.

I'm almost certain this is ok.... isn't it?

Can't really shead any light to what the problem is, but I've seen that countless times in RH, the rpm db just hangs, never really figured out why or how to fix it, other than kill the rpm process.

It is quite possible that another process has locked the rpm databse. You could check this by running ps aux.

Anyway, your program should install fine anyway. Just make sure that you don't, for example, have an update program running while you execute rpm -Uvh or -ivh - for that matter.

Cool - thanks, Guys. I figured it wasn't that big of a deal, but I like to make sure.

Thanks again.
Eric