SuSE freeze fixed!

Pascal Bleser pascal.bleser at skynet.be
Tue Dec 6 06:44:25 PST 2005


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Christoph Thiel wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> 
>>> Those RPM patches don't seem to have anything todo with the verion of 
>>> rpm that we have in SUSE Linux - could you please elaborate on that?
>> These are possible fixes for the problem. If you're using an older 
>> version, you'll have to understand what they do, and port them.
> 
> Well, our rpm (4.1.1) isn't multi-threaded so there isn't much to port 
> from that patches... anyway, we'll switch to 4.4.2 soon, which should fix 
> those problems.

... but only for >= 10.1 ;)

>> As far as Smart is concerned, it's a problem in SuSE only. Also
>> notice that the patch I've sent to the list is not fixing any
>> problem on Smart. It's changing the implementation so that we
>> don't touch the real problem.

Either way, it seems to fix the freeze... well, hopefully it does :)
Updated smart-0.40-14 packages for SUSE will be available on my site (as soon as the next sync hits
gwdg.de, which means tomorrow morning (GMT+1) at worst), and it includes your patch.

Thanks a lot for your work Gustavo :)

cheers
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