[Fedora-legacy-list] Re: rpm 4.2, apt 0.5.5cnc6, yum 2.0.4 for all RH platforms >= 7.3

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:27:16PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 21:37, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > Specifically what versions of RH have you seen the everlasting lock
> > > bug?
> > 
> > Any, otherwise it would not be `everlasting', would it ;)
> > (O.K., any above 4.0.x)
> > 
> > > What procedure would cause it?  I ran into this too many months
> > > ago, but recently haven't been able to reproduce it.  jbj still insists
> > > to this day that we're all crazy and this bug didn't exist.
> > 
> > Then stress test your environment with a couple of
> > 
> > while true; do rpm -qa > /dev/null; done
> > 
> > And then issue rpm -Uhv or rpm -e in another terminal..
> > 
> > Or simply jump to bugzilla.redhat.com, and check the severn/FC1 test
> > product for some more recent lockup reports.
> 
> Oh, this is a completely different bug.  The problem I was running into
> were the locks completely broken iff NPTL and upgrading to rpm-4.2-1
> under earlier RH9 kernels.  A reboot or rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__* seemed
> to fix the problem, until you upgrade or downgrade rpm.
> 
> This problem seems to have gone away completely without explanation.

Jeff removed O_DIRECT a few weeks after releasing the first 4.2-1, but
didn't bump the release up (e.g. used the same EVR on rpm.org).

Caused a lot of tears ...
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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