smart freezing in transaction

[Jeff Johnson]

On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:08 AM, Tom Miller wrote:

> This is good. I'd like to know. The lock is getting set again blocking
> smart.
>
>  I cd to /var/lib/rpm. But here is what I get when I run rpmdb_stat:
> /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_stat -CA
> db_stat: DB_ENV->open: No such file or directory
>

The Berkeley DB concurrency locks are contained in the /var/lib/rpm/ 
__db* files.

If the files don't exist, then there are no locks that are accessible  
(Note: it's still possible
to have deadlocks if you have removed the files, the previous files  
will continue to
exist until the inode reference count goues to 0).

Running rpm -qa as root will create the __db* files, and the __db*  
files are persistent until removed.
Note that the __db* files are containers, not the locks themselves.

73 de Jeff

> What else should I do?
>
> Thx,
> Tom
>
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 09:56 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> On May 31, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Christoph Thiel wrote:
>>
>>> I guess you have hit an unfavorable moment, where zmd was holding a
>>> lock
>>> for the rpmdb. So it might have been only "haning", not freezing ;)
>>>
>>
>> Instead of guessing, one needs to verify what locks are active:
>>
>>       cd /var/lib/rpm
>>       /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_stat -CA
>>
>> and verify by examination whether locks are stale, active,
>> deadlocked, whatever.
>>
>> Otherwise no one will ever know what happened ...
>>
>> 73 de Jeff
>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> 	Christoph
>>>
>>> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Tom Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, not sure whether why, but today, after an update from the  
>>>> Suse
>>>> Software Update, updates in smart package manager are working. So,
>>>> even
>>>> though I am mystified, my problem seems solved.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks anyway, and thanks for a great package manager.
>>>>
>>>> Tom Miller
>>>>
>>>>  10.1 On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 00:14 -0500, Tom Miller wrote:
>>>>> Installed smart version 0.41 release 25 on SUSE 10.1 (x86_64).
>>>>> GUI works fine, can set up channels, mark packages, looks to be a
>>>>> fabulous package manager. However, once I commit installation of
>>>>> even on
>>>>> package, the Processing Transaction window comes up, stays stuck
>>>>> at 0%
>>>>> for apparently infinity.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tried installing one package with smart install pkgname.rpm, it
>>>>> still
>>>>> gets stuck in the transaction.
>>>>>
>>>>> Suggestions? TIA
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom Miller
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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