Update Conflicts

[Wade Hampton]

It was on 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 and was a few days ago (I had not updated
it for a few weeks).
On 2/14/07, James Wilkinson <fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk> wrote:
> Wade Hampton wrote:
> > On my FC6 x86_64 laptop, yum crashed twice and I had to remove the
> > __db* files and rebuild the RPM DB to get it to work.   This is a 4-5
> > year old problem with RPM (first seen with RH7 or RH8 and the newer
> > Berkley DB).
>
> How long ago was that, and which kernel? It seems to have been due to an
> unfortunate interaction between the Berkeley DB and a kernel bug, which
> was fixed in 2.6.19.

It was on 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 and was a few days ago (I had not updated
it for a few weeks).

How would a kernel bug cause a problem with an application like Berkeley DB?


Thanks,
--
Wade Hampton