Bug 110982
Summary: | Upgrade from redhat9 trashes rpm database | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Andrew Savva <asavva> |
Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 1 | CC: | barryn |
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Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-12-11 13:30:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Andrew Savva
2003-11-26 09:56:40 UTC
What does "ls -al /var/lib/rpm" say? [root@alanis root]# ls -al /var/lib/rpm total 50960 drwxr-xr-x 2 rpm rpm 4096 Nov 15 22:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Nov 15 21:38 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 9834496 Nov 15 22:22 Basenames -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Nov 15 22:21 Conflictname -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 1421312 Nov 15 22:22 Dirnames -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10489856 Nov 15 22:22 Filemd5s -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Nov 15 22:22 Group -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 20480 Nov 15 22:22 Installtid -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 45056 Nov 15 22:22 Name -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 35909632 Nov 15 22:22 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 339968 Nov 15 22:22 Providename -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 94208 Nov 15 22:22 Provideversion -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Nov 15 22:22 Pubkeys -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 233472 Nov 15 22:22 Requirename -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 167936 Nov 15 22:22 Requireversion -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 90112 Nov 15 22:22 Sha1header -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 49152 Nov 15 22:22 Sigmd5 -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Nov 15 22:22 Triggername OK, Packages exists and appears to have valid (i.e. non-empty) data. What does "rpm --rebuilddb -vv" say? [root@alanis root]# rpm --rebuilddb -vv D: rebuilding database /var/local/lib/rpm into /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557 D: creating directory /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557 D: opening old database with dbapi 3 D: unshared posix mutexes found(38), adding DB_PRIVATE, using fcntl lock D: opening db environment /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages create:cdb:mpool:private D: opening db index /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: locked db index /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages D: opening new database with dbapi 3 D: unshared posix mutexes found(38), adding DB_PRIVATE, using fcntl lock D: opening db environment /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557/Packages create:mpool:private D: opening db index /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557/Packages create mode=0x42 D: closed db index /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages D: removed db environment /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db index /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557/Packages D: closed db environment /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557/Packages D: removed db environment /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557/Packages D: removing directory /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557 Hmmm, what kernel and glibc are you using? rpm-4.2 needs nptl supprort, and you appear (the DB_PRIVATE messages) to not have functional nptl (threading). Did you perhaps install the i386 version of glibc? That does not have nptl compiled in. I am using a custom kernel 2.4.23. I've never known the kernel to clash with the rpm package manager. This is a new one for me! What is the nptl patch you are referring to? I noticed that the Fedora shipper kernel is 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl but did not take much notice of the spurious nptl extension. I presume this means it is a 2.4.22 kernel with the nptl patch? Please can you advise on how to proceed. I don't want to rely on a now obsolete kernel (2.4.22) and so would appreciate any advise on how to patch to support nptl. The glibc version I am using is the standard Fedora shipped packages. I have definitly not changed this from the standard version but can't tell you what I have because of my "rpm" issue. Do you have Red Hat changes in your "custom" 2.4.23 kernel? If no, you should be building and using rpm-4.1.1. The issue is NPTL used for pthread-mutexes on rpmdb, rpm-4.1.1 is the same code base as rpm-4.2, but is built without --enable-posixmutexexs. Alternatively, build rpm-4.2 without --enable-posixmutexes. I will rebuild rpm as per suggestion. Thanks. |