Re: segfault with just running "rpm -qa"

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>]

Paul Heinlein wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
>
>  
>
> > My first course of action would be to see if the Red Hat default
> > 2.4.x kernel showed this problem. If it doesnt then I would say it
> > is something in the latest test NPTL items that eneds to be looked
> > at. I would also get the latest rpm from either rawhide or rpm.org.
> > Try to get it update itself.
> >    
>
> The easy way to test if NPTL is the problem is to use the
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL hack:
>
>  LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -qa
>
> I'm running SGI's XFS-friendly kernel on a Red Hat 9 box, and I've got
> to set that silly environment variable any time I want to query or
> update the rpm database.
>  

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL is OK, but rebuilding rpm-4.2.1 (or rpm-4.2) without 
the 2 occurences
of --enable-posixmutexes in autogen;sh and rpm.spec will solve the 
problem too.

You will lose unified process/thread locks and won't care a bit, as 
process locks are
all that's needed atm for concurrent access from applications that wish 
to access rpmdb.

73 de Jeff