Several questions

[Hans Deragon]

Kai Thomsen wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:31:43 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote
> a strangely formatted posting:
> 
> 
>>2.  Will Fedora finally fix the RPM lockup problem?  With RH 8 and 9, 
>>sometimes RPM will just seem to hang and never return.  I occasionally
>>have to kill -9 the rpm process then rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*.  I NEVER
>>had problems like this with RH 7 and the older RPM (which also seemed
>>much faster).
> 
> 
> On my RHL 9 machine, I haven't had those problems since upgrading to the
> new version available on <ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.2/>.

I still have this problem once in a while with RPM 4.2, release 0.69.  A serious 
problem when you count on RPM to update patches automatically from a cronjob 
every night on hundreds of hosts.  If some hosts get their RPM database 
screwed...  you get the idea.

Unfortunatly, I never got the problem reproduced systematically, thus I never 
opened a bug report on this.


Best regards,
Hans Deragon
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