up2date problems with aspell and xemacs-el

[Stephen Smoogen]

The db4 locking hang has been fixed for quite some time in Severn and 
rpm.org. I do not know the inside political reasons why Red Hat hasnt 
issued the fix as an errata.. I know the maintainer (Jeff Johnson) has 
been jumping up and down inside of Red Hat that they should.

On 7 Sep 2003, Alan wrote:

>On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 10:30, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > Unfortunately, it does not:
>> > # rpm --rebuilddb
>> > error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     920 Header V3 DSA signature:
>> > BAD, key ID 897da07a
>> > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy
>> > 
>> > For the record, I'm using rpm-4.2.1-0.11 and up2date-3.1.46-2. Do you
>> > think upgrading these to the rawhide versions would fix the problem?
>> 
>> I dont know. One for bugzilla
>
>And/or check the changelog in the rpm.
>
>I have yet to see a fix for the db4 locking hang.  If they have fixed
>it, they need to issue a general fix.  It has been a problem for a while
>now.
>
>Sometimes I think there is a reason that the RPM version numbers are
>404, 411, and 420.  (4:20 being the most appropriate.)
>
>

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