smart freezing in transaction

[Tom Miller]

Oh, duh, I should have been root, that works.

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 08:08 -0500, 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
> 
> 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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