On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:00:28AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 00:45, Axel Thimm wrote: > > You can test the above for RH7.3, RH8.0, RH9 and FC1 from > > > > http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/name/rpm/ > > http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/name/apt/ > > http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/name/yum/ > > http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/name/atrpms/ > > > > (rpm 4.2 provided only for RH <= 9, as FC1 carries 4.2.1) > > > > Some dependencies may arise to other packages available on atrpms > > (elfutils comes to mind), depending on the distribution. > > > > Don't use production machines, and be aware of the everlasting rpm > > lock bug [1]. > > Specifically what versions of RH have you seen the everlasting lock > bug? Any, otherwise it would not be `everlasting', would it ;) (O.K., any above 4.0.x) > What procedure would cause it? I ran into this too many months > ago, but recently haven't been able to reproduce it. jbj still insists > to this day that we're all crazy and this bug didn't exist. Then stress test your environment with a couple of while true; do rpm -qa > /dev/null; done And then issue rpm -Uhv or rpm -e in another terminal.. Or simply jump to bugzilla.redhat.com, and check the severn/FC1 test product for some more recent lockup reports. -- Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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