Charles A Edwards <eslrahc@(protected):

> Is anyone else having issues with rpm/urpmi hanging at %post with some
> pkgs installs?
>
> I have had the issue at least twice during the past 2 days requiring
> that I use Ctrl-c when doing --auto-select.
>
> Don't remember what the pkg was yesterday but today the culprit is
> lilo.
>
> rpm -Uvh --force
> ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/main/release/lilo-22.6.1-14mdv2009.0.x86_64.rpm
> Retrieving
> ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/main/release/lilo-22.6.1-14mdv2009.0.x86_64.rpm
> Preparing...           ###########################################
> [100%] 1:lilo
> ########################################### [100%] error:
> %post(lilo-22.6.1-14mdv2009.0.x86_64) scriptlet failed, signal 2
>
> I allowed it to run for 5-10 mins before I used Ctrl-c

in those cases, it could be useful to find out what is dead-running.

use "ps axf" for example to see what's wrong. you may "strace -p" the
blocking/blocked process.

and try to install lilo again and see if it occurs again.