Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2003 19:27:59 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: odd db4 error with 2.5.69-mm4 [was Re: Huraaa for 2.5] |
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On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 21:18, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> They appear to either not be running in equivalent environments or >> something has gone horribly wrong. The diff is incredibly noisy and not >> useful for debugging, could you strace the working kernel's bit as root? >> Also, things start getting wildly different after both examine DB_CONFIG, >> where 2.4 and 2.5 open different files with different options, i.e. 2.5 >> does O_DIRECT on /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 and 2.4 never touches that file, >> and 2.4 never does O_DIRECT either. >> This may very well have something to do with the difference in >> privileges.
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:24:23PM -0500, Shawn wrote: > Thanks for all the help! So, is it that there is likely misuse of > O_DIRECT somewhere (db4, rpm, etc)? > Wonder if I should bother filing a bug if rpm has a bugzilla...
My sources say the bug is in the packaged version of db4.
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