| Date | Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:24:06 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 'what to expect' |
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Dave Jones wrote: > - Some people seem to have trouble running rpm, most notably Red Hat 9 users. > This is a known bug of rpm. > Workaround: run "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5", before running rpm.
Ah, _thank you_.
It's not an rpm bug, as such; it's a problem/bug with DB4, the Berkeley DB library.
I just spent 2 hours trying to figure out why rpm was failing. write() returning EINVAL for no reason? Finally spotted that O_DIRECT was the significant bit.
I don't raise any eyebrows when rpm has a bug - after all, it's had quite a few. But I was disappointed to find Berkeley DB's own db_dump unable to read the rpm database too.
End result: I copied an rpm database from another machine. It's wrong for this machine, but nearly right. Ah well.
If I'd only known about the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL fix sooner.
Can this go into Documentation/Changes, please?
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