Several questions
Thaddeus Nielsen
paroikos at myrealbox.com
Tue Nov 4 02:07:44 UTC 2003
Chris [tkchris at nvbell.net] wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2003 12:04 pm, 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 have. rpm will still crash and burn if it is interrupted abnormally. It
> obviously does not clean itself up properly on a SIGINT signal. For example,
> up2date crashed with a segfault the other day, and I had to kill -9 rpm and
> rebuild my dbs.
>
My fedora 1 up2date uses yum and has worked much more smoothly
than the beta versions. Have you downloaded the latest up2date
(4.1.14-2)?
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