It is very difficult to tell what are the conditions that trigger this bug, but yes i've seen it too. Maybe it's dependent on some weird hardware-dependent timing issues. A factor that seems to enhance the probability is running "rpm -qa | whatever" before doing a "rpm -Uvh". On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 18:37, Res wrote: > Still? > never seen it before and I've done hundreds of installs on desktop and > servers, > > On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > it's disappointing to see that rpm still has a talent > > for hanging in the middle of an install, necessitating > > a deletion of some files in /var/lib/rpm. > > > > any chance this is going to be fixed some day? > > > > rday > > > > > > > > > > -- > -Res > > Micro$oft-: Destruction of theory "You get what you pay for" > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Florin Andrei "The irony is that Windows gets an unfair market-share boost because it is inferior to Linux and requires more installations to do the same work." - Nicholas Petreley
