Smart 0.4.12 freeze on suse 10

Philippe Le Gal philippe.legal at tele2.fr
Tue Nov 15 12:16:18 PST 2005


Hi!

Thanks for these quick answer.

I'll debug next smart freeze. 

Philippe

Le Mardi 15 Novembre 2005 14:39, Gustavo Niemeyer a écrit :
> 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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