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From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
To: Bradley Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test broke RPM 4.2 on Red Hat 9 in a VERY weird way
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:13:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F730637.8080406@rackable.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030925132630.59015.qmail@web40903.mail.yahoo.com>

Bradley Chapman wrote:
> I've just discovered a very strange and unusual problem with rpm on my Red Hat 9
> laptop running 2.6.0-test. Under 2.4.22-ac2 rpm runs perfectly fine, but when I
> run it under 2.6.0-test, it outputs the following errors:
> 
> sudo rpm -Uvh alsa-driver-0.9.6-1.fr.i386.rpm
> Password:
> 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
> warning: alsa-driver-0.9.6-1.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
> 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
> 
> I have never seen rpm do this before, and it only occurs under 2.6.0-test. It
> happens under these specific kernels:
> 
> 2.6.0-test5-bk10
> 2.6.0-test5-bk11
> 2.6.0-test5-mm4
> 
> I have not tried -test5-bk12 yet, but I have a feeling that I will get the same
> errors. I have checked syslog and dmesg and there are no errors from the kernel;
> under 2.4.22-ac2 rpm works perfectly fine, so I don't believe it's file corruption
> or filesystem breakage.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas that I can try?
>

    Sound like NPTL issues "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 <rpm command>". 
Check the archives for details.


-- 
Once you have their hardware. Never give it back.
(The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-25 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-25 13:26 2.6.0-test broke RPM 4.2 on Red Hat 9 in a VERY weird way Bradley Chapman
2003-09-25 15:13 ` Samuel Flory [this message]
2003-09-25 15:24 ` Paolo Dovera
2003-09-25 16:36   ` Bradley Chapman
2003-09-25 16:46     ` Samuel Flory
2003-09-25 17:10       ` Bradley Chapman
2003-09-25 19:05         ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-09-25 19:52         ` David T Hollis
2003-09-25 20:18           ` Bradley Chapman

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