Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:06:47 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Shawn <core@enodev.com>
Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: odd db4 error with 2.5.69-mm4 [was Re: Huraaa for 2.5]
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Shawn <core@enodev.com> wrote:
>
> Not to get away from the praise too much, but I have a rpm/db4 problem
>  that seems to be related to the kernel. before I started backing out
>  parts of 69-mm4, I just wanted to figure out /which/ parts to try
>  backing out.
> 
>  As root, I basically can't use rpm at all. I think it's select() related
>  as strace shows it timing out. The odd thing is that it works great as a
>  non-privileged user.

rpm seems generally flakey sometimes.

remove /var/lib/rpm/__*

Use

	LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm

to get around rpm's O_DIRECT bug.

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