smart hanging on librpm/__memp_fget_rpmdb

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:10:34AM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
> 
> >Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) <mteixeira at webset.net> added the comment:
> >
> >Is this still an issue? What version of smart/rpm?
> >
> I have not reported this to Axel, but smart (from atrpms) does 
> occasionally hang for me during the final stage of the 'updating cache' 
> phase.  It works again after a reboot.  This is not a really serious 
> problem for me, because I reboot frequently, but it would be difficult 
> in a production environment.
> 
> version is smart-0.42-39.fc5.at.i386
> 
> This has been happening for several weeks - perhaps since the 2.6.18 
> kernel came in.  I don't think I can be more specific about when it 
> first happened.

Lately there seems to be a general regression on FC wrt rpm based
software, which affects apt, smart and yum all the like and
higher lever depsolvers based on these, too, of course.

Although noone seems to be able to put a finger on any part of
rpm/beecrypt/db4 that didn't have any relevant changes something seems
to be triggering race situations. Some blamed yum-updatesd, others the
way (the new) yum opens/closes the rpmdb, but it seems to even happen
w/o any yum present and on both FC5 and FC6, so it's probably a
combination of kernel 2.6.18 latency/lock changes and rpm that
triggers this. But ATM this is just my best guess based on the
observations of rpm/apt/smart/yum bugs reported.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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