bug in rpm (was Re: How risky is 2.5.x?)

[Robin Humble <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:30:17AM -0500, Robin Humble wrote:
>It happens during rpm -Uvh when the install doesn't complete but
>instead hangs forever and needs to be kill -9'd. After that strace
>shows that root can't open /var/lib/rpm/Packages and it loops forever
>in select() waiting to access it.

Ok, thanks to those who emailed me - this is an rpm bug and nothing to
do with xfs:
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75826

cheers,
robin