[lug] RH 8.0 and KRUD 8.0 sporadic rpm flakiness

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Sun Jan 26 21:29:16 MST 2003


On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 13:08, Ed Hill wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Just FYI theres a bit of flakiness in the version of rpm shipped with
> Red Hat 8.0 and KRUD 8.0.  I ran into it a couple of weeks ago while
> installing LabVIEW 6.1 and, at the time, I thought it was due to poorly
> made RPMs.  Turns out it wasn't.  The following discussion doesn't say
> exactly what causes the problem is but it does say how to cleanup things
> if you run into it:
> 
>   http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/rpm-list/msg16921.html
> 

I have seen it as well and always attributed it to old hardware.  Nice
to know the source of the problem.

Hugh




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