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From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test broke RPM 4.2 on Red Hat 9 in a VERY weird way
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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.


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Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>

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