From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263512AbTDGPEj (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:04:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263515AbTDGPEj (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:04:39 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:62868 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263512AbTDGPEi (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:04:38 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors From: Alan Cox To: Robert Love Cc: Andrew Morton , "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1049727199.894.60.camel@localhost> References: <20030406183234.1e8abd7f.akpm@digeo.com> <1049679689.753.170.camel@localhost> <1049680078.753.173.camel@localhost> <1049715944.2967.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <1049727199.894.60.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1049725059.2967.62.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 07 Apr 2003 15:17:40 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2003-04-07 at 15:53, Robert Love wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 07:45, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I've forwarded the report to the RH RPM maintainer to look into. I know > > the non NPTL cases are ok because I never run Red Hat kernels except in > > the install process. If there are subtle NPTL differences anything is of > > course possible > > Someone reported it was an issue with O_DIRECT, which I guess is also > possible. Confirmed by RH people. Its a problem with how rpm misuses O_DIRECT. When non NPTL is in use the problem doesn't occur. So its an RPM bug, problems to redhat not Linus 8)