On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Sean Middleditch wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:46, rhllist@assursys.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Sean Middleditch wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:08, rhllist@assursys.co.uk wrote:
That only removes the problems of lockfiles (__*) being left lying around, it doesn't solve the underlying problems of rpm hanging and subsequent rpm database corruption.
The good news is, that for me at least, the backport of rpm available from http://www.rpm.org works fine. As alluded to in the above Bugzilla report, it's highly annoying that an official erratum hasn't been issued. :-C
The backport you mention are the files in ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.1.1 ?
Yup, that's the badger. ;-)
Hmm, Rawhide has rpm 4.2.1-0.30, and the bug persists - I'm assuming I probably don't want to downgrade, since the 4.1.1 test is just backported stuff from 4.2, yes?
Put it this way; I'm running 4.1.1 on RH8 and it's trouble free, despite the heavy use I make of RPM. I haven't tried 4.2.1, and I haven't tried using RH9/Severn as a base platform either. On distros with NPTL-enabled kernels (i.e. RH9+) it may also be well worth setting $LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 (e.g. "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -ivh foo-1.2.3-4.i386.rpm").
Best Regards, Alex.
Best Regards, Alex.