[ILUG] Removing xtest RPM from SuSE 7.0

Tue Apr 17 00:00:44 IST 2001

I was trimming down a SuSE 7.0 "almost everything" installation (this choice
is probably bad :-) ) and I had a hard time trying to remove the xtest
package. It's > 300M and I got frustrated and simply deleted all its files,
but before I did that, and since,  rpm -e xtest comes back with simply 

killed

If I trace it, I get (boatload of other stuff removed, mainly lseeks and
reads) 

lseek(5, 6713344, SEEK_SET)             = 6713344
read(5, "f\0\373\17\363\17\352\17\342\17\327\17\317\17\303\17\273"..., 4096)
= 4096
lseek(5, 12591104, SEEK_SET)            = 12591104
read(5, "X\0\374\17\364\17\352\17\342\17\323\17\313\17\304\17\274"..., 4096)
= 4096
old_mmap(NULL, 12197888, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x40dc9000
+++ killed by SIGKILL +++

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening ? How can I cause my rpm
database to forget about this package ?

Regards,

Niall