From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263212AbTDGDSA (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 23:18:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263215AbTDGDSA (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 23:18:00 -0400 Received: from [12.47.58.55] ([12.47.58.55]:41689 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263212AbTDGDR7 (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 23:17:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 20:29:26 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Robert Love Cc: rpjday@mindspring.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors Message-Id: <20030406202926.762754ea.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <1049685316.894.5.camel@localhost> References: <20030406183234.1e8abd7f.akpm@digeo.com> <20030406182815.65dd9304.akpm@digeo.com> <1049685316.894.5.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Apr 2003 03:29:27.0070 (UTC) FILETIME=[E461F3E0:01C2FCB5] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Love wrote: > > > Backing out this patch (from a kernel roughly similar to 2.5.66-mm3) > does not resolve the problem: > > [23:08:36]root@phantasy:~# rpm -q glibc > 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 glibc is not installed > > [23:10:57]root@phantasy:~# LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -q glibc > glibc-2.3.2-11.9 > > If I boot a kernel without NPTL the problem goes away. The problem also > does not exist in Red Hat 9's 2.4 kernel (which has NPTL). But that's a different error. Robert (Day) reported: 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 but then again, there's no way in which the patch which we're discussing could cause EAGAIN. Has anyone straced a failing rpm command?