On 13 Mar 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > bgmilne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2220 > > > > > > > > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-13 12:17 ------- > > Redhat is also affected by this problem (the one solved by removing > > /var/lib/rpm/__db* and doing rpm --rebuilddb). I have had to help people on LUG > > lists who were running Redhat7.x with this. > > Guess it won't be fixed until rpm's author get a real look at > that problem and fix it in his code.. > > > Maybe urpmi should test for these files and warn the user or automatically rebuild? >
Just to add my personnal experience with this problem, apart from rebooting the PC, each time I had this problem, I was unable to do an 'rpm -qa' under a normal user, but it worked under root. Seems like a lock or sthg similar was created when rpm ran in a default crontab, and only root seems to be able to bypass it. I tried doing some strace as others users did, but this really seems to be an rpm problem, not urpmi (it happened on a machine that didn't run urpmi).
