2004-03-25 01:45:23

by Peter Williams

Subject: RPM failures when using 2.6.X kernels on RH9

When attempting to install RPM packages on RH9 using any 2.6.X kernel I
get the following error messages:

[peterw@mudlark KERNELS]$ sudo rpm -i
/home/peterw/Downloads/atrpms-29-1.rh9.at.noarch.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
warning: /home/peterw/Downloads/atrpms-29-1.rh9.at.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA
signature: NOKEY, key ID 66534c2b
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
[peterw@mudlark KERNELS]$

If I revert to a 2.4.X kernel the package installs without any problems.

Can anyone enlighten me to a likely cause for this phenomenon?

Peter
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2004-03-25 03:37:19

by Linus Torvalds

Subject: Re: RPM failures when using 2.6.X kernels on RH9

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> When attempting to install RPM packages on RH9 using any 2.6.X kernel I
> get the following error messages:

Yes. Buggy rpm binary which tries to use direct-IO without proper
alignment etc.

Work around by doing

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1

and then upgrade to a fixed rpm binary as quickly as possible.

Linus