Bug 53498

Summary:	Crashes if rpm database in use
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	GeoffLeach <geoffleach.gl>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	gafton, mihai.ibanescu, srevivo
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Description GeoffLeach 2001-09-10 15:29:01 UTC

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Description of problem:
Starting up2date when the database is in use results in messy exit

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start rpm -i <some package>
2.start up2date before it finishes
3.
	

Actual Results:  up2date terminates messily

Expected Results:  Popup with a message "Waiting for rpm database" and a
cancel button

Additional info:

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2001-12-03 20:12:42 UTC

Plans are afoot, but are dependent on newer versions of rpm.

In the meantime, up2date will now handle db error issues neater.
(ie, no more tracebacks, but you will get an error message)

Comment 2 Matt Jamison 2003-05-19 16:27:03 UTC

it is now working properly.