Re: 2.6.0-test5 broke RPM 4.2 on Red Hat 9 in a VERY weird way

[Samuel Flory]

Bradley Chapman wrote:
> Mr. Flory,
>
> --- Samuel Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Bradley Chapman wrote:
> >
> > > Damn, spoke too soon :(
> > >
> > > I upgraded to popt 1.8.1, installed beecrypt (rawhide RPM needs it), and
> >
> > installed
> >
> > > rpm 4.2.1 from rawhide -- all using LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5. Reloaded my konsole
> > > to clear&reset my environment.
> > >
> > > Now I still get the error, but the program still works, i.e. something like
> >
> > this:
> >
> > > rpm -qpl /download/system/popt-1.8.1-0.30.i386.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
> > > warning: /download/system/popt-1.8.1-0.30.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
> >
> > ID
> >
> > > 897da07a
> > > /usr/include/popt.h
> > > /usr/lib/libpopt.a
> > > /usr/lib/libpopt.la
> > > /usr/lib/libpopt.so
> > > /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0
> > > /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0.0.0
> > > /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/eu_ES/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/zh/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/locale/zh_CN.GB2312/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
> > > /usr/share/man/man3/popt.3.gz
> > >
> > > Anybody have any other ideas?
> >
> >
> >   Try a "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm --rebuilddb"?
>
>
> Excellent! Thanks for the advice; now it works perfectly fine.

  Most likely you  screwed up the rpm database durning your prior 
problems.



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Once you have their hardware. Never give it back.
(The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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