[ATrpms-users] FC5 occasional Smart/rpm 'race' conditions - solved?

[John Pilkington]

I've used Smart on FC5 for many months, but occasionally it has hung 
during cache-rebuild, and I've also occasionally found rpmq racing under 
anacron.

This looked like smart issue196, http://tracker.labix.org/issue196, 
which came up yesterday in the Smart list and is apparently 'resolved', 
so I renamed my 'Channels' folder and tried to 'Update Channels'. This 
failed when it got to fedoralegacyupdates, and I couldn't get Smart to 
work again until I restored my original Channels folder.  I've now 
disabled the FC5 legacyupdates channel, which was last modified in August.

It's too early to say whether this has stopped the difficulties.  I 
think I first had them around the time that 2.6.18 came in.

John P