Re: database locking woes part 2

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 05:32:16PM -0400, Ian Peters wrote:
> More information -- lock-breaker is not able to break the database lock
> until version 4.0.3 -- previous versions did not display this behavior. 
> Peter Bowen and I are looking at the differences between the 4.0.2 and
> 4.0.3 trees now to try and find the regression.  Hopefully, once we know
> exactly what is broken, we'll be able to come up with a work-around to
> keep Red Carpet from accidentally breaking rpm locks.

Sanity check:

Run strace and determine the errno. If fail, then it's a programming
problem, if success then fcntl is weird. You might check the fdno
involved, that's gonna be important too.

73 de Jeff

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