Chris [tkchris@xxxxxxxxxx] 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)?
