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Wow, I just got this to happen with Fedora Core 1! # uname -a Linux bilbo.scalix.local 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Error I was having ... # rpm -q rpm 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 rpm is not installed Now it works when the following is done!!!!! # rm /var/lib/rpm/__* # export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 # rpm -q rpm rpm-4.2.1-0.30 Please cc any replies to me - Fred Shaul zap technologies http://zaptech.com/ On 6 Apr 2003, Robert Love wrote: > 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). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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