Re: Lockup safety in rpm-4.1.1 and rpm-4.2

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:37:27PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On 7 Apr 2003, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > 
> > > Ah.. that explains the thing then. After upgrading to rpm-4.2-1: no more
> > > stale locks and rpm hangs caused by randon ctrl-C'ing when apt is being
> > > run. Thanks for clarifying this!
> > > 
> > > The next question then: when can we expect errata rpm release for RHL 9?
> > 
> > yup, i really want one of those as well -- been having the
> > well-reported locking problems under RH 9 with the latest
> > 2.5.66 kernel.
> 
> Last I checked, Red Hat 9 didn't include a 2.5.66 kernel. You're asking
> for trouble imho, particularly with O_DIRECT.

whoops, sorry, i worded that badly.  i'm running RH 9, and am testing
it with the latest 2.5.66-bk12 kernel.  along with others, i've had
a locking problem running rpm as root doing even simple things like
querying a package.

the current solution to that is to run the command with
"LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5".  i interpreted the last few emails
on this list to suggest that there was a solution to this
problem with a newer version of rpm.  sorry if i misunderstood.

rday