On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 16:06, Robert L. Millner wrote: > > Doing distribution testing when the rpm command stalls on the futex > syscall every 1/3 to 1/4 times you use it where a reboot is apparently > needed to make rpm work again at all is really, really irritating. I'd be > > The 8.1 distribution cannot hit the streets with this bug - this is a > show stopper.
I fully agree. I've seen this RPM bug in the very early days of 8.0, i reported it through Bugzilla, and it's still not fixed. I just experienced it again a few days ago, while building a new 8.0 system and playing with the dependecies needed for a new SpamAssassin version. Just did a "rpm -Uvh" to a bunch of packages and bang! rpm was solid frozen. Only "kill -9" removed the stale process. Since i forgot what the workaround is (it's somewhere in Bugzilla, but i can't remember the URL), i had to reboot the system, otherwise rpm would freeze at any combination of parameters. I do not remember if, in this particular case, the packages were official RH updates, or just packages created by myself, but i've experienced the bug in both cases before. And now the next RH version is close to release, but 8.0 still has the bug. And, which is worse, apparently some people (like you and others) reported the bug with the beta version of 8.1. Not good. Not good at all. "Show stopper", "irritating"... I'm all with you. IMO, the Red Hat package manager, as far as 8.x versions are concerned, is now in a "sometimes working" state. Rather not what you'd want when running mission-critical systems. At this moment, this is my single major concern when deploying Red Hat on servers. Yeah, i know there are some workarounds to it, but putting together "workaround" and "mission-critical" is like putting together "old lady" and "machine gun", if you know what i mean. :-( -- Florin Andrei "When banner ad revenue for a media outlet becomes more important than accuracy, it's time to find a new profession." - Tim Mullen -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
