smart freezing in transaction

[Jeff Johnson]

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
>>>
>>