On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:52:12PM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:00:25 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote
> > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Eric Wood wrote:
> >
> > > <snip>
> > > If you experience hangs in RPM, it is usually a corrupt database index.
> > > Fortunately, this is very easy to fix:
> > >
> > > # rm /var/lib/rpm/_*
> > >
> > > Just remove all files with a leading underscore ("_"), from the /var/lib/rpm
> > > directory. This will clear up 99% of failure cases. For that other <1%, you
> > > need more help than I can give.
> > > </snip>
> >
> > according to the bugzilla report, a comment by jeff "mr. rpm"
> > johnson claims that the newest version of rpm at
> >
> > ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/
> >
> > fixes all hang problems. i think we should all give this
> > version a good shakedown.
>
> Does that mean that RH will soon be issuing it as a RH 9 update?
Legitimate question. I suppose we'll oon ee if the more rapidly moving
Shrike will also translate into more rapidly appearing bug fixed code.
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Jack Bowling
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