Bug 99274
| Summary: | rpm as root fails with kernel 2.6.0-0.test1.1.25 running | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Matt Domsch <matt_domsch> |
| Component: | db4 | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-07-17 23:26:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I see now on linux-kernel that this is well understood to be a db4 and O_DIRECT problem, not specifically an RPM problem. Changing to db4. I didn't see a duplicate, but if so, please mark this as such and close. Yup, upgrade to rpm-4.2-1 packages from
ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.2.x
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Description of problem: Running rpm commands as root fails, running as a normal user succeeds as best it can for that user. Running with kernel 2.6.0-0.test1.25 and rpm-4.2-0.69. # rpm -q initscripts (18 seconds elapse) 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 As a normal user: [mdomsch@D5JPLF11]$ time rpm -q initscripts initscripts-7.28-1 real 0m0.366s user 0m0.032s sys 0m0.014s Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.2-0.69 kernel-2.6.0-0.test1.1.25 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install above packages on up2date RHL9 system 2. run rpm commands as root 3. Actual results: commands fail as above Expected results: commands work Additional info: