rpm lockups - argh

[Aaron Bennett]

You may wish to consider posting this to rpm-list at redhat.com , so that 
Jeff Johnson, RPM maintainer @ red hat, can see / respond / etc to your 
issue...

- Aaron

rhllist at assursys.co.uk wrote:

>On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Paul Gear wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Justin Georgeson wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I find it troubling to hear that this is still present, if it's what I
>>>think it is.
>>>
>>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73097
>>>
>>>This started in RH 8, and apparently still exists in RawHide. If this
>>>isn't fixed before the next release, that will be 3 major versions
>>>shipped with a broken RPM. That is unacceptable.
>>>      
>>>
>>Indeed!  Try this:
>>
>>    alias rpm='rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*; /bin/rpm'
>>    
>>
>
>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
>
>Best Regards,
>Alex.
>
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Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering