ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Wade Hampton wrote:

> A couple of points about Fedora, YUM, and RPM.
>[...]
>
> 2)  Since Red Hat 8 or 9, RPM has had issues with Berkeley DB
> including lockups and
>    __db* files that have to be manually deleted if updates crash or
> you CTRL-C while
>    doing an RPM. This has apparently never been fixed.

Did I not read someplace that this turned out to be a kernel race bug that 
has finally been fixed?  Are people running the latest kernels still 
experiencing this problem?

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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