recent rh9 updates broke rpm?

[Damian Menscher]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:05:25PM -0800, Joe Pruett wrote:
>> if there are known issues with the rh9 rpm, i think we should put a fixed
>> one in legacy-utils.
>
> Well, there's this:
> <http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2333>
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88164>

Ok, so those bug reports suggest running rpm-4.2-1.  I ruled that
cause out in my post that started this thread.  I quote myself:

"""
Finally, I know the standard thing-to-do is rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* and 
install a more recent version of rpm.  But I've already got rpm-4.2-1 on 
these machines, so those locking issues shouldn't be causing a problem. 
"""

I guess I should try installing the package directly with rpm, rather 
than with yum, and see if it's successful.  Unless anyone can make sense 
of the two strace outputs I posted....

Damian Menscher
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