Re: rpm-4.2 problem with kernel-2.5.65 NPTL

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:07:44PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>Jeff Johnson suspected from this behavior that NPTL in my kernel is
>broken in kernel-2.5.65 compiled with gcc-3.2.2-2.  Any ideas of what I
>can try?

I think I tracked this down yesterday to the fact that RPM is opening
its files with the O_DIRECT flag and then is trying to create a sparse
file.  If I am reading the archives of this mailing list correctly, this
is no longer supported.

I "solved" the problem by rebuilding rpm.  It didn't use the O_DIRECT
flag when I rebuilt it and things seemed to work better.

Sure wish I remembered LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 yesterday when I was
banging my head against the wall trying to figure this out...

cgf

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>Warren Togami
>warren@togami.com
>
>On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 07:22, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:43:29PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>>
>>>> > rpm-4.2-0.70 seems to be broken while I am using kernel-2.5.65 with
>>>> > Rawhide.  When I use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 it works properly as 
>you can
>>>> > see below.
>>>> >
>>>> > Is this a bug in rpm or upstream kernel?  Should I file a Red Hat
>>>> > Bugzilla report for rpm?
>>>> >
>>
>>>
>>> Then you have a broken NPTL implementation, which is a glibc/kernel,
>>> not rpm, problem.
>>>
>>
>>>> > (Is rpm-4.2-0.72 or higher available packaged anywhere?)
>>
>>>
>>> Use CVS. rpm-4.2 is on the -r rpm-4_2 branch.
>>>
>>> 73 de Jeff
>
>
>[root@laptop root]# rpm -Uvh gaim*
>rpmdb: write: 0xbfffd350, 8192: Invalid argument
>error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
>error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
>error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>rpmdb: unable to join the environment
>error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
>error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>rpmdb: unable to join the environment
>error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
>error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>[root@laptop root]# ls
>bin  gaim-0.60-0.fdr.0.1.cvs20030319.i386.rpm
>gaim-plugin-encrypt-0.60-0.fdr.0.1.cvs20030319.i386.rpm  kernel
>[root@laptop root]# LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -Uvh gaim*
>Preparing...                ###########################################
>[100%]
>   1:gaim                   ###########################################
>[ 50%]
>   2:gaim-plugin-encrypt    ###########################################
>[100%]
>[root@laptop root]# uname -a
>Linux laptop 2.5.65 #2 Tue Mar 18 23:39:11 HST 2003 i686 athlon i386
>GNU/Linux
>[root@laptop root]# rpm -q rpm
>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
>package rpm is not installed
>[root@laptop root]# LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -q rpm
>rpm-4.2-0.70