rpm all wacked?

[Fred A. Shaul]

also posted on linux kernel list as ...
Re: 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

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- Fred Shaul
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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).