On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Christian Goetze wrote: > > Check that you're not having NPTL-related problems. I did (RedHat 9 > > fresh installation on 2 separate boxes), and had to set > > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 (environment variable) to get RPM working again. > > Not sure what triggers the condition though. I've seen people complain > > on the RedHat forums (where I found this kludgy workaround), but they > > had been long ignored at the time. > > My case is really weird. It suddenly started happening on a machine that > was running it fine before. It seems that a succession of "rpm -q" and > then any modification (rpm -e, rpm -i) will cause a lockup. I will be > running straces today and be posting more about it. Needless to say that > this is quite a bummer... > > Is there any additional state being kept except in the database? Is there > any way to verify the consistency of that state? Do the following: cd /var/lib/rpm /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_stat -Co You should not see any locks if no rpm processes are running. Cheers...james > -- > cg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
