Re: rh-rpm] Re: rpm hang on Red Hat 9

[R P Herrold <herrold owlriver com>]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Chris Ricker wrote:

> I'm not seeing hangs on Severns, but I am getting core dumps fairly 
> regularly from both yum and rpm (which kinda suggests something in librpm 
> Ain't Quite Right). Nothing too reproducible -- I'll rpmbuild -ba, it'll 
> dump, I'll repeat, it won't. Or I'll yum upgrade, it'll dump, I'll repeat, 
> it won't. Or....
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> Any pointers on what I can do to help track this down?

Buy a big hard drive, and wrap rpm and yum in strace with tee 
logging everything to uniquely named files on that big drive.

When you get a crash, save the exemplar post-mortem 

Identify common factor from study of a collection of them

Rinse Lather Repeat    <smile>

-- Russ Herrold