rpm lockups - argh

[Sean Middleditch]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:46, rhllist at assursys.co.uk wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:08, rhllist at 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?

> 
> Best Regards,
> Alex.
> 
> 
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