Smart 0.4.12 freeze on suse 10

Tue Nov 15 05:39:35 PST 2005

Greetings!

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

Not really. At the point a package is being installed, it doesn't
matter what the channel format is anymore. Fedora uses rpm-md as
well, and I've not seen reports of Smart locking consistently like
that, for instance.

We've had a similar problem in Mandriva, when the rpm locking scheme
was changed. I couldn't yet spot the exact problem, but that's
happening around rpm for sure.

> > Is there a verbose option of smart to find the problem and help for
> > debugging this wonderfull tool ?

None that would help in that specific case. The first interesting thing
is knowing where Smart is freezing. You may try to attach a gdb to the
locked python process and get a backtrace, as a first step.

Get into the #smart channel on freenode.net, if you need help.

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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