On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 21:43, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:25:53AM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > Would I be correct in assuming that this won't help in the least for > > graphical updaters or other apps, as they most likely use librpm? (and > > wouldn't use that alias anyhow even if they didn't) I almost never use > > the plain rpm command. :( > > How do you know it's rpm locking up then, if you almost never use the > plain rpm command? (If up2date tracebacks for some reason and you didn't Because in the instances I *do* use plain RPM, is *also* locks up. It never locks up when using apt or yum, now that I think on it - just plain rpm and the redhat-install-packages utility. I never use up2date, since it refuses to work w/ Rawhide, only the Severn beta, which isn't what I want. > run it from the command line, it may appear to freeze instead, for > instance. I filed that in Bugzilla shortly after the RHL 9 release, > although I don't remember the bug number right now.) I've not found a pattern of crashes and lockups. More often, I'll install a couple packages just fine (usually using redhat-install-packages) and then go to install a another, and get the lockup. > > Also, could you try running the command "getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION" > and tell us the output? (I might have other advice based on the output > of this command.) elanthis@stargrazer:~$ getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION NPTL 0.57 Running the latest Rawhide. Problem has existed ever since I installed Redhat, version 8.0, after switching from Debian. > > -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx> > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.