The db4 locking hang has been fixed for quite some time in Severn and
rpm.org. I do not know the inside political reasons why Red Hat hasnt
issued the fix as an errata.. I know the maintainer (Jeff Johnson) has
been jumping up and down inside of Red Hat that they should.
On 7 Sep 2003, Alan wrote:
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 10:30, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Unfortunately, it does not:
> > # rpm --rebuilddb
> > error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 920 Header V3 DSA signature:
> > BAD, key ID 897da07a
> > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy
> >
> > For the record, I'm using rpm-4.2.1-0.11 and up2date-3.1.46-2. Do you
> > think upgrading these to the rawhide versions would fix the problem?
>
> I dont know. One for bugzilla
And/or check the changelog in the rpm.
I have yet to see a fix for the db4 locking hang. If they have fixed
it, they need to issue a general fix. It has been a problem for a while
now.
Sometimes I think there is a reason that the RPM version numbers are
404, 411, and 420. (4:20 being the most appropriate.)
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