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SubjectRe: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors
Wow, I just got this to happen with Fedora Core 1!

# uname -a
Linux bilbo.scalix.local 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1
Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


Error I was having ...

# rpm -q 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
package rpm is not installed

Now it works when the following is done!!!!!

# rm /var/lib/rpm/__*

# export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5

# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.2.1-0.30

Please cc any replies to me

- Fred Shaul
zap technologies
http://zaptech.com/

On 6 Apr 2003, Robert Love wrote:
> ok, based on messing around this morning with this, here's what i've
> found.
>
> (first, apologies to andrew morton; when i said his patch applied on
> top of bk12, i was just confused. it's a "battle tactic". :-)
>
> all of this is based on my RH 9 (shrike) box, running on a dell
> inspiron 8100.
>
> first, the rpm flaw exists using all three variations of the kernel i
> tested:
>
> 2.5.66
> 2.5.66-bk12
> 2.5.66-bk12-mm (bk12 minus andrew's filemap patch)
>
> the interesting part is that doing something simple like "rpm -q rpm"
> works for a non-root user; it fails only when root tries it, even
> though the operation is only a query. go figure.
>
> next, backing out from rpm-4.2-0.69 to rpm-4.2-0.66 didn't seem to
> fix the problem (at least, not for me -- a previous poster claimed
> that it fixed it for him, but it didn't solve the problem here).
>
> finally, using:
>
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -q rpm
>
> solves the problem (at least under the 2.5.66-bk12-mm kernel i'm
> running at the moment -- i'll assume it does the same under the
> others).



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