On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:37 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Oddly, installing all the 9.2 updates solved all problems
> > (although there is no apparent reason why in the explains of the
> > RPMs involved).
>
> There seems there is still an odd "locking" problem when we
> launch update-menus from within %post scriptlet of an RPM
> (problems arises from the fact update-menus do itself an rpm
> call, "rpm -qa"), flepied spent a large amount of time trying to
> fix that before 9.2, actually had some success with some
> scenarios, thought he caught all of them, but apparently not
> really all, the problem being that it's very rare here and
> absolutely not reproductible :/.
>
> If *anyone* can reproduce it, please post here the steps to
> reproduce it, I'm sure we can come up with a fix quickly. But
> without it, it's a hell to debug.
>
> A workaround is to launch "update-menus" as root.

Do any of you that have this problem have fluxbox installed?
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