Not to get away from the praise too much, but I have a rpm/db4 problem
that seems to be related to the kernel. before I started backing out
parts of 69-mm4, I just wanted to figure out /which/ parts to try
backing out.

As root, I basically can't use rpm at all. I think it's select() related
as strace shows it timing out. The odd thing is that it works great as a
non-privileged user.

2.5.69-mm4, otherwise mostly stock rh90 setup.

[root@www root]# rpm -qi iptables
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 iptables is not installed
[root@www root]#

The following is what strace shows. A full trace is attached.
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {1, 0})      = 1 (in [3], left {1, 0})
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {3, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {6, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {9, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)


On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 20:27, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:54:22PM -0500, Shawn wrote:
> > Just a wahoo for all the kernel gods. I had forgotten what 2.5 does for
> > the desktop until I upgraded to rh9.0 and started using 2.4 again.
> > Thanks for all the awesome work!
> 
> Good to hear a success report, most of what I get here seem to be bugs. =)