2.6.0-mm2 Surprises

2.6.0-mm2 Surprises

[Danny Cox]

I've found some surprises in my testing of 2.6.0-mm2 on my RH 9 box.

First, 'make menuconfig' doesn't work.  It paints the top 8 or so lines,
and freezes.  gnome-terminal begins using as much CPU as it's allowed. 
This is similar to bug 959 in bugme.osdl.org, but changing CHILD_PENALTY
from 90 to 130 didn't fix the problem.

Second, simply resizing gnome-terminal results in the same behavior. 
Certainly, this may be a gnome thing.

Third, 'rpm' cannot install packages.  It always exists with:

rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily
unavailable (11)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

11 is EAGAIN, but an strace revealed little to the uninitiated (me).

rpm also fails in the same way with --rebuilddb.  /var/lib/rpm/__db.001
is zero length BTW.  That is almost certainly wrong.  Of course, these
both work fine with a 2.4.20 kernel.

Sorry if these (or some variant thereof) have already been reported
here.

Thanks for your time, and please note that I'm not subscribed to
linux-kernel.  If you need more info, please don't hesitate to ask.

-- 
Daniel S. Cox
Electronic Commerce Systems

Re: 2.6.0-mm2 Surprises

[Davide Libenzi]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Danny Cox wrote:

> I've found some surprises in my testing of 2.6.0-mm2 on my RH 9 box.
> 
> First, 'make menuconfig' doesn't work.  It paints the top 8 or so lines,
> and freezes.  gnome-terminal begins using as much CPU as it's allowed. 
> This is similar to bug 959 in bugme.osdl.org, but changing CHILD_PENALTY
> from 90 to 130 didn't fix the problem.
> 
> Second, simply resizing gnome-terminal results in the same behavior. 
> Certainly, this may be a gnome thing.

Same here, I did not spent time investigating though.


> Third, 'rpm' cannot install packages.  It always exists with:

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4



- Davide

Re: 2.6.0-mm2 Surprises

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 15:17, Danny Cox wrote:

> First, 'make menuconfig' doesn't work.  It paints the top 8 or so lines,
> and freezes.  gnome-terminal begins using as much CPU as it's allowed. 
> This is similar to bug 959 in bugme.osdl.org, but changing CHILD_PENALTY
> from 90 to 130 didn't fix the problem.
> 
> Second, simply resizing gnome-terminal results in the same behavior. 
> Certainly, this may be a gnome thing.

It's a known issue with gnome-terminal. You'll need to upgrade to the
latest gnome-terminal and vte packages.

"make menuconfig" works nicely here under KDE and text-only console.

> Third, 'rpm' cannot install packages.  It always exists with:
> 
> rpmdb: unable to join the environment
> error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily
> unavailable (11)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

Again, this is not a kernel problem.

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

Then, try "rpm -i" again.