[issue12] freezing at computing transaction

[Risto Kankkunen at Labix Tracker]

Risto Kankkunen <risto.kankkunen at iki.fi> added the comment:

I just migrated my yum settings (18 channels) to smart and did an upgrade after
a couple weeks of non-use. Smart handled the upgrade beautifully downloading
almost 300 MB of files at my full 1MB/s speed using its clever concurrent
downloading.

However, now it seems I cannot upgrade or install anything. I always end up into
a CPU-consuming loop. E.g. trying to install Firefox 1.5 from FC 4 Development
channel ties all the CPU. Stracing the system shows either:

     0.000075 [00d27402] futex(0xa80db88, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0
     0.000071 [00d27402] futex(0xa80db88, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0
     0.000069 [00d27402] futex(0xa80db88, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0

or on other occasions:

     0.136168 [00b7d402] brk(0xad61000) = 0xad61000
     0.074208 [00b7d402] brk(0xad82000) = 0xad82000
     0.048184 [00b7d402] brk(0xad7f000) = 0xad7f000

It doesn't matter, whether I use the GUI or not. I'm not short on memory (512 MB
RAM, smart taking about 100 MB, no swapping) and the CPU should be fast enough
(Athlon XP 2000+).

I tried the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL setting from message msg101, but that just produced
loads of warning about undefined symbols.

Smart seems really promising, but at the moment I cannot use it at all.

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nosy: +risto.kankkunen
priority: bug -> critical
status: resolved -> 

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