Re: Lockup safety in rpm-4.1.1 and rpm-4.2

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:05:48PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:37:27PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > On 7 Apr 2003, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Ah.. that explains the thing then. After upgrading to rpm-4.2-1: no more
> > > > stale locks and rpm hangs caused by randon ctrl-C'ing when apt is being
> > > > run. Thanks for clarifying this!
> > > > 
> > > > The next question then: when can we expect errata rpm release for RHL 9?
> > > 
> > > yup, i really want one of those as well -- been having the
> > > well-reported locking problems under RH 9 with the latest
> > > 2.5.66 kernel.
> > 
> > Last I checked, Red Hat 9 didn't include a 2.5.66 kernel. You're asking
> > for trouble imho, particularly with O_DIRECT.
> 
> whoops, sorry, i worded that badly.  i'm running RH 9, and am testing
> it with the latest 2.5.66-bk12 kernel.  along with others, i've had
> a locking problem running rpm as root doing even simple things like
> querying a package.

EINVAL on write when first opening dbenv is the O_DIRECT symptom.

> 
> the current solution to that is to run the command with
> "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5".  i interpreted the last few emails
> on this list to suggest that there was a solution to this
> problem with a newer version of rpm.  sorry if i misunderstood.

Try "private" in /etc/rpm/macros for work around. Otherwise, kernel-2.5.x
is very, very different set of problems, I'll get there when I get there.

73 de Jeff

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