rpm lockups - argh

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Sean Middleditch wrote:

>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 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?

I have not been able to get it to do this with the rawhide version.. and 
I have done some pretty darn complicated database transactions with some 
rpms inside of rpms... Do you have a replicable case including hardware 
swap size?

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