Several questions

[Thaddeus Nielsen]

Chris [tkchris at nvbell.net] wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2003 12:04 pm, Kai Thomsen wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:31:43 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote
> >
> > a strangely formatted posting:
> > > 2.  Will Fedora finally fix the RPM lockup problem?  With RH 8 and 9,
> > > sometimes RPM will just seem to hang and never return.  I occasionally
> > > have to kill -9 the rpm process then rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*.  I NEVER
> > > had problems like this with RH 7 and the older RPM (which also seemed
> > > much faster).
> >
> > On my RHL 9 machine, I haven't had those problems since upgrading to the
> > new version available on <ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.2/>.
> 
> I have.  rpm will still crash and burn if it is interrupted abnormally.  It 
> obviously does not clean itself up properly on a SIGINT signal.  For example, 
> up2date crashed with a segfault the other day, and I had to kill -9 rpm and 
> rebuild my dbs.
> 
My fedora 1 up2date uses yum and has worked much more smoothly
than the beta versions.  Have you downloaded the latest up2date
(4.1.14-2)?