[ILUG] Removing xtest RPM from SuSE 7.0

[Fergal Daly]

Try an

rpm -e -vv xtest

to get some more verbosity. Maybe that'll give more of a clue as to what's 
happening,

Fergal


At 23:59 16/04/01, you wrote:
>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
>
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