On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:46, rhllist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:08, rhllist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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? Put it this way; I'm running 4.1.1 on RH8 and it's trouble free, despite the heavy use I make of RPM. I haven't tried 4.2.1, and I haven't tried using RH9/Severn as a base platform either. On distros with NPTL-enabled kernels (i.e. RH9+) it may also be well worth setting $LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 (e.g. "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -ivh foo-1.2.3-4.i386.rpm"). > > Best Regards, > > Alex. Best Regards, Alex.
