Bug 98975
| Summary: | rpm failure : need help | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Van <k_tgiang> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | leonard-rh-bugzilla |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-04-19 19:02:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Yup, mixing and matching kernel/glibc/rpm leads to some
painful surprises these days.
Basically you need to decide whether you want NPTL/TLS/futexes.
If you do want them (i.e. you're mostly RHL9), then you want
versions and updates and rpm from RHL9. This translates to
you want rpm-4.2.
Otherwise (i.e. you're mostly RHL8.0) then you want to get
packages/updates/rpm from RHL 8.0. This translates to rpm-4.1.1.
So figure out whether you want 4.2 or 4.1.1 (they're the same
code base, built differently).
Download all the packages (don't forget popt) for either rpm-4.2
or rpm-4.1.1 from
ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist
into var tmp, and install manually by doing (as root)
cd /var/tmp
mkdir xxx
cd xxx
for i in ../{rpm,popt}-*.rpm; then
/usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh $i | cpio -dim
done
find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;
tar cf - . | (cd /; tar xvf -)
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb -vv
cd /var/tmp
rpm -Uvh {rpm,popt}-*.rpm
I followed what you suggested to switch to rpm4.2, but there are couple of
problems on the way:
for i in ../{rpm,popt}-*.rpm; then /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh $i | cpio -dim
fails due to syntax error, which I am not familiar with. So, instead I tried :
/usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh ../{rpm,popt}-*.rpm $i | cpio -dim
which turns out fine. Then, I follow the rest of the steps, but up to :
rpm --rebuild -vv
it gives me the same old error : "rpm: error while loading shared libraries:
libelf.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". I
notice there are new created dirs in the xxx dir too, but somehow it doesn't
work.
What should I do then? By the way, I am using <bash> if it helps.
The reason I insist on rpm4.2 is that even though I upgraded to kernel-
2.4.20, java still causes runtime errors where the docs of java mention
otherwise. So, I thought making everything compatible for kernel-2.4 would be
helpful since I assume there must be changes in kernel-2.4.20's compilers. If
you have any information about this, plz feed me :-)
thanks.
-van
I managed to try couple of times, this time I follow the command in bash:
for i in ../{rpm;popt}-*.rpm; do /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh $i | cpio -dim;done
which works fine. But then,
rpm --rebuilddb -vv ( or any rpm command )
gives the following error: "bash: /bin/rpm: Cannot execute binary file"
any idea?
(I forgot to reopen bug last time, so you might have 2 comments session).
thanks.
-van
What do
ls -al /bin/rpm
and
file /bin/rpm
say?
Seems like this issue is somewhat outside of the scope of the distribution (mixed versions) and the issues are expected. WONTFIX? NOTABUG? |
Description of problem: Due to a chain of reasons that I had my kernel-2.4.18-14 of RH8 (Psyche) upgraded to kernel-2.4.20-8 (mostly because of java SDK 2, version 1.4.2). After done that I couldn't install oprofile-*.rpm package with the error: ... Preparing ############################################[100%] can't handle file 'libc.so.6' with TLS data Frozen...but found out later a method to solve it, at least some did say they solved it. So, I follow suit : >cd / >rpm2cpio ~van/rpmdirs | cpio -ivd # note : rmpdirs dir has rpm-*.rpm and elfutils-*.rpm packages and others # and those rpm- are version 4.2 of RH9 >rm -f /var/lib/rpm/_db.00* >ldconfig -vv >cd ~van/rpmdirs >rpm -Uvh [all packages already haved dependencies resolved - long list of rpm files] Problem arises : it gives me (no mercy) the following : rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libelf.so.1 cannot open shared object file. No such file or directory Indeed, I managed to use ">locate libelf", I end up with "libefl.so.0" but no such file as "libelf.so.1", ( I already updatedb my slocate database, so I bet it gives accurate search result ). Now, I can't do anything with rpm, rpm2cpio or even rpm --initdb or -- rebuilddb options. Would you please tell me what's going on? What I have to do to bring my shared libraries "back online"? Oh, for the record, I tried to restart the computer and found that those _db.00* were still there. I wonder how those database files could be constructed when rpm was already dead? Currently, solutions other guru have used to solve the "libc.so.6 file handling TLS data" have not worked for me. I heard about setting environment to ASSUME_KERNEL_ or something. If that might work, plz tell me how since I will be willing to try out. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I was using pure RH8 (psyche), but to run j2sdk-1_4_2 version, I need to upgrade to kernel beyond 2.4.20 to avoid runtime errors. Of course, to do that requires a lot of packages upgrade. Then problem with installing oprofile-0.4-44.i386.rpm package ( with error of TLS data ). So, I intend to upgrade rpm instead. ( I guess it's a bad move ). Then, it involves a lot of packages upgrade. Once I finally came to the point of having all dependencies resolved, I ended up with "error loading share libraries" as mentioned above. Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd / 2. rpm2cpio [dirToUpdatedRPMSPackages] | cpio -ivd 3. rm -f /var/lib/rpm/_db.00* 4. /sbin/ldconfig -vv 5. cd [dirToUpdatedRPMSPackages] 6. rpm -Uvh *.rpm Error : "rpm : error while loading shared libraries : libelf.so.1 cannot open shared object file : No such file or directory" Actual results: Expected results: Updated version of rpm might solve some problems in rpm version of RH8 as heard from other RH users ( read online of course ). It turns out not quite!!! Additional info: