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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com>
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Subject: Re: RPM failures when using 2.6.X kernels on RH9
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On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> When attempting to install RPM packages on RH9 using any 2.6.X kernel I 
> get the following error messages:

Yes. Buggy rpm binary which tries to use direct-IO without proper 
alignment etc. 

Work around by doing

	export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1

and then upgrade to a fixed rpm binary as quickly as possible.

		Linus