Several questions

Bill Anderson bill at noreboots.com
Tue Nov 18 14:07:14 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 13:09, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 15:04, 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/>.
> 
> You need to re-init and rebuild the database if this has ever happened,
> as well.  Otherwise, it seems it'll keep locking up on you.

Not in my experiences.


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