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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 08:46 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Neal Becker wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> smart update hangs at ~50% loading cache. rm /var/lib/rpm/__*, then</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> rpm --rebuilddb fixes it.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">You likley don''t need --rebuilddb.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This is likely the kernel-2.6.19 (and FC6 2.6.18 backport) mmap(2) </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">problem,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">bugzilla is full of reports.</FONT>
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I *think* I had a similar problem. Removing /var/lib/smart/* seemed to correct the cache lockup. Make sense at all??
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