Bug 152173 – rpm once again doesn't work with non-NPTL kernels

Bug 152173 - rpm once again doesn't work with non-NPTL kernels

Summary:	rpm once again doesn't work with non-NPTL kernels

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Paul Nasrat
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Reported:	2005-03-25 11:36 EST by Jonathan Kamens
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-04-27 21:12:33 EDT
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2005-03-25 11:36:21 EST

For a long time, rpm was being compiled in such a way that it would work on 
non-NPTL kernels.  As of rpm-4-4.1-2, it no longer does.  Note that this is 
independent of the other bug which was closed WONTFIX about problems caused by 
db4 being compiled with NPTL support -- despite the fact that db4 was compiled 
with NPTL support, until recently rpm worked on non-NPTL machines, but it no 
longer does.  Was this a conscious decision or an inadvertent change?  If the 
latter, can it be fixed?

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2005-03-25 11:49:36 EST

"Work" with non-nptl kernels was not perfect. Reverting to DB_PRIVATE
if/when shared posix mutexes are not functional was not the right thing
to do and led to __db* cache corruption.

No fix to the problem of rpm compiled expecting +NPTL but running
in -NPTL environment is known, as db4 locks are compiled in. You
cannot have it both ways.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2005-04-27 21:12:33 EDT

With FC4, getting things working without a 2.6 kernel is virtually impossible. 
Which means that you always have nptl.

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