rpm database corruption (again)

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:46:39AM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 08 March 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >>On Mar 5, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> >>>On Monday 05 March 2007, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> >>>>Neal Becker wrote:
> >>>>>I'd almost given up on smart.  Running on fedora fc6.  I'd do
> >>>>>smart upgrade --update
> >>>>>
> >>>>>And almost daily I'd have a broken rpm database.  Fixing it is
> >>>>>painful.
> >>
> >>"... broken ... painful"
> >>
> >>Without describing "broken" in more detail, it's impossible to  
> >>attempt
> >>to diagnose your problem.
> >>
> >>73 de Jeff
> >
> >smart update hangs at ~50% loading cache.  rm /var/lib/rpm/__*, then
> >rpm --rebuilddb fixes it.
> >
> 
> You likley don''t need --rebuilddb.
> 
> This is likely the kernel-2.6.19 (and FC6 2.6.18 backport) mmap(2)
> problem, bugzilla is full of reports.

This was fixed a couple of kernel updates ago.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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