also posted on linux kernel list as ... Re: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors
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
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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).
