hang while using smart to install packages on SuSE system

[Pascal Bleser]

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Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>> I suspect a race condition (running on a 2Ghz dual-core Opteron).
> 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.

For the record, I'm that "troll".

Current version is 0.41:
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=System/smart

Same version is in SUSE "Factory" (the development branch of SUSE 10.1), packager there is Christoph
Thiel (who's also on this list).

cheers
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