Re: odd db4 error with 2.5.69-mm4 [was Re: Huraaa for 2.5]

William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-14T02:15:21Z

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 21:18, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> They appear to either not be running in equivalent environments or
>> something has gone horribly wrong. The diff is incredibly noisy and not
>> useful for debugging, could you strace the working kernel's bit as root?
>> Also, things start getting wildly different after both examine DB_CONFIG,
>> where 2.4 and 2.5 open different files with different options, i.e. 2.5
>> does O_DIRECT on /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 and 2.4 never touches that file,
>> and 2.4 never does O_DIRECT either.
>> This may very well have something to do with the difference in
>> privileges.

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:24:23PM -0500, Shawn wrote:
> Thanks for all the help! So, is it that there is likely misuse of
> O_DIRECT somewhere (db4, rpm, etc)?
> Wonder if I should bother filing a bug if rpm has a bugzilla...

My sources say the bug is in the packaged version of db4.

-- wli