hang while using smart to install packages on SuSE system

[Jeff Johnson]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

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> I suspect a race condition (running on a 2Ghz dual-core Opteron).
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If its a race, then the mechanism is missed SIGCHLD.

Verify that smart is indeed waiting for SIGCHLD, the scriptlet with a  
ppid same as smart
will be in the Z "zombie" state.

And kill -CHILD of smart should wake up smart, reap the zombie  
status, and continue merriily along.

If you've verified the above, go find the SuSE troll responsible for  
rpm and send him my way for fixing.

I have no idea what rpm SuSE is using currently.

73 de Jeff