Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:07:26 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors |
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On 6 Apr 2003, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 21:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Does it work OK with earlier 2.5 kernels? > > > > The only change which comes to mind is the below one. Could you do a > > patch -R of this and retest? > > This has been happening since 2.5.60-ish. > > It is NPTL-related. Mr. Day, doing this: > > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm <...> > > should "fix" the problem.
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).
take whatever you can get from this.
rday
p.s. more 2.5.66-bk12 oddities coming up shortly
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