Bug 252979

Summary:	RPM missing a Requires:, fails on too-old glibc
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
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Description Valdis Kletnieks 2007-08-16 13:07:31 UTC

Description of problem:
RPM and yum loop with an error message:
rpmdb: unable to lock mutex: Invalid argument

I have glibc-2.6.90-8 installed, apparently rpm-libs is trying to use the futex
support added in 2.6.90-9.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.2.1-7.fc8

How reproducible:
Install this release of RPM and a glibc older than 2.6.90-9.

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Comment 1 Valdis Kletnieks 2007-08-16 14:20:52 UTC

Something else is obviously squirrelly - I managed to get back to an older RPM
with 'rpm2cpio rpm-4.4.2.1-6.x86_64.rpm | cpio -ivudm' and it's still doing it.

Comment 2 Valdis Kletnieks 2007-08-16 14:40:57 UTC

Whatever it was, seems to be gone after applying glibc-2.6.90-10.  Also, it only
seems to trigger if /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* files are present (hand-removing them
make it shut up).

Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2007-08-20 07:36:53 UTC

Looks like temporary glibc brokenness, rpm mostly just cares about having
working and compatible NPTL used for locking (the __db* files). glibc 2.6.90 is
most certainly new enough, too new if anything... :)