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Subject: Re: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 21:32, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Does it work OK with earlier 2.5 kernels?
> 
> The only change which comes to mind is the below one.  Could you do a
> patch -R of this and retest?

This has been happening since 2.5.60-ish.

It is NPTL-related.  Mr. Day, doing this:

	LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm <...>

should "fix" the problem.

I have not yet tracked down what in 2.5 is broken, but Red Hat's kernel
obviously does not have this flaw.

	Robert Love