Re: Unneeded assertions (supposed to have been: RPM upgrade discussion)

[Warren Togami <warren togami com>]

Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> > FWIW, whenever I recommend "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* ; rpm -vv --rebuilddb"
> > myself, it is because experience has it that sometimes this has helped
> > further than removal of the tmp files. You never know what the user
> > has done to make RPM "hang".
>
>
> I agree.  While not necessary for the exact known causes of most hangs
> in rpm where it is necessary for kill -9, I'd recommend it to new
> users since it may help fix other problems, and in general it is
> always safe to do.  I have seen cases where "rpm -qa" hangs halfway
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not necessarily.  There is the 
imported-GPG-key-causes-rebuilddb-to-corrupt-rpm signatures in rpmdb 
problem.  I don't know the Bugzilla # at the moment though.

I know about this very well, because they blamed ME for the problem at 
first. =)

Warren