Smart 0.4.12 freeze on suse 10

[Pascal Bleser]

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philippe.legal at tele2.fr wrote:
> I use smart 0.40.12 on Suse 10 (32bits) and it freeze usually during
> first upgrade of my suse box just after the DVD installation.
> I've installed suse and smart on several boxes and the problem happen
> each time.
> 
> It only freeze on big upgrade (more than 100Mo  downloaded packages).
> 
> If smart freezes, I usually kill the process and start it again with the
> fix option first.
> 
> Sometime, it freeze during the fix option so I tried again smart upgrade
> and it works.
> 
> Is there a verbose option of smart to find the problem and help for
> debugging this wonderfull tool ?

The issues seem to be related to RPM-MD (yum) repositories.
Try using apt-rpm repositories for SUSE Linux.

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