[ATrpms-users] problems using smart, rpm

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

I would install apt and
use "sudo apt-get check" to get any inconsistency in rpm database
(just lists what broken dependencies). Then I would use yum to fix things
until smart is safe again.

/Paulo Roma.



On 10/29/06, Mark Wormgoor <mark at wormgoor.com> wrote:
>
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:36:21AM +0100, Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> >> Marcel Janssen wrote:
> >>> On Sunday 29 October 2006 09:45, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >>>> Try rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*, that's all what a reboot does.
> >>> OK.
> >>>
> >>>> I'm using smart of FC6 just fine, though.
> >>> I'll keep an eye on what is happening. Last night also some cron jobs
> didn't
> >>> start correctly. This seems totally unrelated to the smart issues
> though.
> >>> After I rebooted things seem fine again.
> >> I also suffered from a lot of smart/rpm problems on my FC5 box this
> week and
> >> I still haven't figured out what caused it. It seems like smart kept
> >> corrupting my rpm database (happened over night at least twice and a
> couple
> >> more times when I was trying to fix it). I've rebuilt my rpm db at
> least 10
> >> times and removed all smart data (except for config) at least twice.
> >>
> >> It seems better now, but I don't know what caused it.
> >
> > There were no updates in FC5 that would affect smart and/or rpm, at
> > least I didn't spot any. But given that there are now two reports on
> > this, something seems broken somewhere.
> >
> > Mark, could you check whether anything suspicious was upgraded on the
> > FC5 box before the corruption?  Something that smart/rpm depends on
> > like beecrypt/sqlite/python etc.?
> >
> > A bit far fetched, but perhaps kernel 2.6.18 is causing rpm(lib)
> > headaches.
>
> Very possible. The only updates that I see that can have any impact are
> kernel (2.6.18) and libsepol. And for that last one, I don't have
> selinux enabled, but the selinux libs are linked in just about everywhere.
>
> > Even farther fetched: Perhaps during your nightly smart updates yum
> > kicked in, too? One can use yum/apt/smart/rpm randomly at will, but
> > not simultaneously. And if a smart download goes into the night the
> > 4:00 AM cron scripts from yum might cooperate on the same rpmdb which
> > can cause issues.
>
> Nope, I only have smart enabled. I don't even have apt or yum installed.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
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