Bug 77988
Summary: | rpm-4.1-9 lockup problem found, fix within? | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Warren Togami <wtogami> |
Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 8.0 | CC: | milan.kerslager |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-11-16 21:34:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Warren Togami
2002-11-16 21:34:08 UTC
The important part of the configuration change is "private", the rest just (more or less) duplicates what is compiled/configured by default in rpm. The effect of "private" is to use an internal, malloc'd environment, essentially eliminating the possibility of concurrent access with record locks, running the (minor but real IMHO) risk of 2 rpmdb writers clobbering everything. Hmmm, so all these hangs are coming from apt users. You might get someone with a clue about Conectiva apt to talk to me so that a real solution can be figgered. AFAIAC the "real" solution is to use NPTL on /dev/futex, almost there. I see many lockups on RH 8.0 system, minimal install, in the class with my students when trying to heavily install various packages. Hope NTPL will give it away. This bug continues on Redhat 9.0 with the newest version of apt from freshrpms. I have since added the lines to /etc/rpm/macros. Too early to tell if that helps. I thought 9.0 was supposed to have the famous NTPL? |