yum -> rpmdb: Locker still has locks

[Jim Cornette]

Paul Dickson wrote:

>>> [...]
>> You probably have about 67 multiple package entries in your rpm database 
>> due to the exit. Maybe it will be the other way, you will get three 
>> multi-version entries.
> 
> Actually there were no duplicate packages.  I checked before I did the
> rebuilddb and only duplicate was ORBit-devel, which I removed.  I checked
> again just now, and none.

It's great to know that you were not left with leftover entries from 
exited before finishing a yum transaction. Since you said you did an rpm 
--rebuilddb before the transaction, it must do a great job cleaning out 
bogus entries from the database.
  I misinterpreted the 3/70 and the [...] above. So it continued through 
to 70/70 after rebuilding the db before the transaction?

> 
> I'm tempted to believe it's the yum bug that's (randomly?) removing files.

There is that remove before performing an upgrade problem when the 
kernel is included in the transaction. I believe there are a few reports 
filed where the transaction did not include a kernel upgrade also.

I think that the rpmdb corruption is more package transactions freaking 
out rpm from expected practices. Though it might just be a bug recently 
introduced into the rpm package causing this also. Who knows for sure.

Jim

> 
> 	-Paul
> 


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