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Message-ID: <20061021180005.GF30758@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:00:05 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: futex hang with rpm in 2.6.17.1-2174_FC5
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 10:45:02AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:38:58AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > > I had a dead nfs server that was causing some programs to pause,
> > > in particular 'yum install foo' was paused. I kill -9'd the
> > > yum related processes.
> > >
> > The dead rpm you killed left behind locks in its databases.
> > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* and it should work again.
> >
> I'll give that a try, but shouldn't these locks clean themselves up when the
> process is killed
If you kill -9'd the processes, what do you expect to do
the clean up work ?
> or shouldn't rpm notice the previous process is dead and
> clean it up itself?
Sounds sensible to me and you, but in the past sensible ideas and
rpm maintainers haven't gone hand in hand.
Dave
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