I can't remove rpm package

**dougRamalho** · 02-05-2013

Hello!,

I can't remove a rpm package with

Code:

rpm -e net-snmp

Nothing happened, and the process returns D status when i see with

Code:

ps aux | grep rpm

. When i say "Nothing Happened", the terminal don't return any message, and not remove the package.

What can I do to remove?

Ps: I work with Red Hat 9 shrike

***Irithori*** · 02-05-2013

Hi and welcome

First: Do not work with redhat 9.
This release is from 2003 and end-of-life, so there is no support anymore.

Other than that:
Can you see the whole rpm list, and if yes: is net-snmp in that list?

Code:

rpm -qa 
rpm -qa | grep net-snmp

If rpm -qa doesnt return anything.. then this machine has the second big problem
If net-snmp is not in the list, then the package has already been removed.

It is possible, that someone installed net-snmp without the use of rpm.
In that case, rpm tools will not help of course.

**dougRamalho** · 02-05-2013

The packages listed in

Code:

rm -qa | grep snmp

are:

Code:

net-snmp and net-snmp-tools.

as net-snmp-tools is dependent of net-snmp, i need remove net-snmp.

Is there any way to remove manually?

Thanks for help me!

***Irithori*** · 02-05-2013

You did see the first point about redhat9 being deprecated, right?

rpm is the manual way, unless you want to manually delete package managed files. Which is not recommended.
What is the output, if you try this as root:

Code:

rpm -e net-snmp net-snmp-tools

Edit:
Directly after the rpm command, please post the output of

Code:

echo $?

This should be a number (return code of rpm)

**dougRamalho** · 02-05-2013

The biggest problem is when i try execute this command, nothing happens and the terminal do not back for line input.

***Irithori*** · 02-05-2013

Maybe the disk is full

Code:

df -h
df -i

Or are there errors?

Code:

dmesg

You could also get the pid of the rpm command and strace it.
Or the other way around, start rpm via strace, aka

Code:

strace -o out -ff rpm -e net-snmp net-snmp-tools

and go through the outputfiles "out.<pid>", looking for potential errors.

But this is probably wasted effort anyway.
This system is ancient.
Maybe the hardware breaks or there is some misconfiguration, etc
My suggestion would be to backup configs, data and logs and then migrate to a newer system.

**dougRamalho** · 02-05-2013

I realized that some commands has D status, when i execute

Code:

ps aux | grep D

, some commands like:

Code:

df -h, lsof and rpm -e

always stay with the status changed for D and nothing happens.

What this is error?

***Irithori*** · 02-05-2013

Look under "PROCESS STATE CODES" in

Code:

man ps

..which further indicates a hw error.

Do you see any errors in dmesg?

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