On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:50, Marius Andreiana wrote: > Hi > > This is about the well-known, classic, traditional rpm hangs bug. When I > tried to install a rpm from shrike it hanged. > Kill -9 had no effect. Removing /var/lib/rpm/__db* and rebuilddb didn't > work first time, with the hanged rpm process still there. It worked > after a reboot. > > I see no open bugs about rpm hanging. RH Engineers, what info would be > useful to track down this critical bug? The problem is that it's not > replicable. > > Is there a way to always run rpm with a debugging mode? What version of rpm are you using? Have you tried upgrading to latest one from RawHide? I'm currently using rpm-4.2-1 and I can't remember when was the last time I saw a hang.
