On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 21:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I am now very confused.
It is a battle tactic.
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).
When I first started tracking this down, I found an rpm version where
everything worked... like rpm-4.2-0.41 or so. I am currently running
rpm-4.2-0.69 which experiences the problem.
It only happens with root, by the way. I guess because non-root users
cannot do much, and everything they do do they do without getting a lock
on the db.
Baffling.
Robert Love
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