On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:47 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> I can't. I just know JBJ often repeated the warning.
Yep, I saw it too. I had a RHL8.0 installation get seriously fubar'd as
a result.
> Also, cache corruption should not happen on a stable system anymore.
> Those bugs have been fixed. But if you do encounter this, try to reproduce,
> check you hardware and then contact JBJ.
I ran into it all-the-time under RHL8.0, but RHL9 seem to fixed almost
everything.
I think I had maybe 2 issues with RHL9 and 1 with FC1, and I never did
again. And in all cases of the RHL9/FC1 issues, those were systems that
were originally RHL8 (possibly RHL7.3) and had been upgraded to RHL9/FC1
from it.
> I am not sure if it has any effect on a system with an existing rpmdb.
> Never used it for that.
What I ran into with RHL9/FC1 was that the system expected some sort of
"initial db cache." Deleting the files didn't do enough, "--rebuilddb"
had the aforementioned consequences. I found RHL9 always worked fine
once I did a "--initdb". It basically started building the cache anew
on any new operation.
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Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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