Mash and rpmdb

[Bill Nottingham]

Thomas (alphacc at gmail.com) said: 
> Hi,
> 
> In a dev environement on RHEL 6.3, I am running mash (latest git) every 5
> minutes against 20 koji tags.(both 1.6 and 1.7)
> I am running sequentially the "mash tag"
> After few hours my rpmdb is corrupted and I need to execute db_recover -h
> /var/lib/rpm.
> It seems "createrepo" (0.9.8-5.el6) doesn't release the locks correctly
> everytime. (/usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_stat -CA)
> Does someone already ran into this issue before I investigate more ?

It's sidestepping issues entirely, but you might consider running mash
as non-root. (Unless you're already doing so and it's still happening?)

Bill