Re: RPM %post dying - pthread, fork, execve

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai welho com>]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:22, David D. Hagood wrote:
> I have a problem with a program using librpm - when RPMs containing %post 
> scriptlets are installed, the scriptlet dies. This does not happen when running 
> rpm from the command line.
> 
> The problem *seems* to be related to pthreads, fork, and execve - the program is 
> using pthreads, and librpm uses fork&execve to launch the shell. From what I've 
> seen elsewhere, there seems to be a problem when using fork&execve in a pthreads 
> environment.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions on how I could do one of the following:
> 
> Resolve the fork&execve problem
> Gain control over libRPM to launch sub-shells with my own code (so that I could 
> use something other than fork&execve)

Just guessing but are you calling rpmtsSetRootDir() before running the
transaction? Even if the rootdir is set to NULL you have to initialize
it on rpm >= 4.1, otherwise all scriptlets will fail.

	- Panu -