On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:59:04PM -0700, Shawn Weber wrote: > > Hmmm, this smells like rpm-4.0.4 or earlier. That the case? > > Yes, this particular build server is running version 4.0.4. > > > The solution will be to participate in the locking scheme > > that rpm uses, basically shared/exclusive fcntl locks on > > /var/lib/rpm/Packages. > > How would I find out what specific process(es) has a shared/exclusive > fcntl lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages? > Hint: Any process that has a fcntl lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages is linking librpmdb-X.Y.so rpm -q --whatrequires librpmdb-X.Y.so and the package contains files rpm -ql `rpm -q --whatrequires librpmdb-X.Y.so` and one of those files is running ps auxg | grep some_file_above HTH 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ jbj@xxxxxxxxxx (jbj@xxxxxxx) Chapel Hill, NC _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
