yum -> rpmdb: Locker still has locks

Paul Dickson paul at permanentmail.com
Mon Nov 13 00:10:25 UTC 2006


On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:13:04 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:

> 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?

Yes it did finish.  I merely included a clipping to show that glibc was
no longer installed, at least according to yum/rpm.

	-Paul




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