On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 19:33, Tom Diehl wrote: > > Well I talked to jeff some about this - he seemed to tell me that I > > should indeed just rm the __db files before a write operation in yum > > until the NPTL stuff get settled out. > > Is there a downside to killing the files?? I am not aware of any but... lock race problem. No one write process has access to the rpmdb - could get messy if two things try to write to the rpmdb at the same time. -sv
