On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 11:56 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > Tony Nelson wrote: > > I'm thinking the problem might be from the puplet interfering with > >> ongoing transactions which is killing the rpm databases. This is a > >> WAG so I really will have to disable the puplet applet and note if > >> database corruption is ongoing or not present any longer. > ... > > > I as well am slightly suspicious of puplet (and pirut), though they should > > be using RPM and not be able to introduce such issues. I'll just keep my > > eyes on the database; I may add a nightly cron task to do this if I can be > > sure of handling locking issues. > > I am now applying updates via the puplet applet and seeing if the > corruption issue will cease. As past practices, I use yum from a root > shell mostly. Everything seems to install fine when using the puplet to > launch pup. I did have a problem with control-center not installing > because of a scriptlet error. This is with current development which is > pretty stable and with few conflicting packages at present. > > Please inform of what the automatic updates do for you. > I am sure the developers and testers would appreciate knowing of problems encountered when running rawhide (development tree). I am also sure that since most on this list are NOT running rawhide it is unlikely that you will get a lot of help here with packages that are not yet released. Please take this discussion to the testing list. fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > This command verifies the various RPM database files: > > > > []# ( cd /var/lib/rpm ; for name in `find . ! -name '__db*' -type f -print` ; do echo "$name" ; /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify "$name" ; done ) > > I ran this and ended up with the below output with no out of the > ordinaty output (Except the files listed below. Do I read these files > after running the script or expect output if something is incorrect? > > ./Conflictname > ./Basenames > ./Triggername > ./Packages > ./Pubkeys > ./Name > ./Requirename > ./Group > ./Installtid > ./Sigmd5 > ./Provideversion > ./Providename > ./Sha1header > ./Dirnames > ./Filemd5s > ./Requireversion > > Then I get back to the shell prompt. (as root) > Jim > > -- > Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed. >
