Re: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
>
> 
> Backing out this patch (from a kernel roughly similar to 2.5.66-mm3)
> does not resolve the problem:
> 
>         [23:08:36]root@phantasy:~# rpm -q glibc
>         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 glibc is not installed
>         
>         [23:10:57]root@phantasy:~# LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -q glibc
>         glibc-2.3.2-11.9
> 
> If I boot a kernel without NPTL the problem goes away.  The problem also
> does not exist in Red Hat 9's 2.4 kernel (which has NPTL).

But that's a different error.  Robert (Day) reported:

 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

but then again, there's no way in which the patch which we're discussing
could cause EAGAIN.

Has anyone straced a failing rpm command?