[ATrpms-users] New problem with smart

[John Pilkington]

I use smart (on FC5) and have had no system-incapacitating problems with 
it.  It does its job very well.  But during the past few weeks it has 
occasionally locked up at the end of the 'rebuilding cache' phase.  I 
have been able to get it working again by rebooting - maybe there are 
less traumatic ways.

There were suggestions that the problem (which also affected other 
depsolvers) might be caused by yum repeatedly accessing the rpm 
database, and on one occasion I found apt-get was continuously active 
under anacron without my knowing about it.

When I became aware of this suggestion I uninstalled both yum and apt.

Now, since the most recent build of smart on atrpms 
(smart-0.42-40.fc5.at.i386, 26 November) smart does not 'hang'. 
Occasionally, during the 'cache-rebuilding' phase, it just exits, 
closing its GUI window.  Maybe this is what was intended.  As before, it 
works fine after a reboot, but not before.  When I have tried to re-run 
it without rebooting it has usually appeared, partially updated its 
cache, and exited again.

I emphasise that it still does a great job, but this behaviour is 
unsettling.

John P