smart-0.50rc1 hangs forever

[Neal Becker]

sudo strace smart update
[...]
stat("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=70647808, ...}) = 
0
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY) = 5
fcntl(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)           = 0
read(5, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\6\0\10\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10"..., 512) = 
512
close(5)                                = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY) = 5
fcntl(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)           = 0
fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=70647808, ...}) = 0
fcntl(5, F_SETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[RTMIN RT_1], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
pread(5, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\356\0 \10\0\2"..., 4096, 
4096) = 4096
futex(0x2aaab2441228, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL       

Sits there forever