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

J Sloan
2003-05-14T02:19:52Z

Shawn wrote:

>Not to get away from the praise too much, but I have a rpm/db4 problem
>that seems to be related to the kernel. before I started backing out
>parts of 69-mm4, I just wanted to figure out /which/ parts to try
>backing out.
>
>As root, I basically can't use rpm at all. I think it's select() related
>as strace shows it timing out. The odd thing is that it works great as a
>non-privileged user.
>
>2.5.69-mm4, otherwise mostly stock rh90 setup.
>

Just out of curiosity, have you tried:

LD_KERNEL_ASSUME=2.4.1 rpm -qi iptables

OTOH, rpm-4.2-1 seems to "just work" here -

where "here" is of the form:

2.5.6x on RH9

Joe