Bug 82893

Summary:	[RFE] up2date should remove any rpm lock files before starting
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	rhn-bugs
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Description Adrian Likins 2003-01-28 07:08:14 UTC

Description of problem:
if there are lock files, stale or otherwise, update might
not being able to use rpm correctly.

jbj has suggested that `up2date` just remove these files
when it starts up.

Comment 1 Chip Turner 2003-01-29 17:34:58 UTC

this seems insane.  if you remove the lockfiles, might you not end up
interrupting a running transaction?