> And upgrade to (at least) rpm-4.1.1 (for RHL 8.0) or rpm-4.2 (for RHL 9) > to fix the problem. The reproducer is > rpm -qa | less > and exit early (i.e. SIGPIPE not handled correctly leaves a stale lock). Thanks! that is the info I need. Upgrading is nice for me, but I cannot expect that customers are in compliance, so the workaround is to not pipe the output of "rpm -q", which my script happens to do. -- cg _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list