On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Geoffrey D. Bennett wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:27:14AM -0500, nathan r. hruby wrote: > [...] > > So the other day I got crafty and decided to try out Arjan van de Ven's > > 2.6 test-kernels on a fully patched Red Hat 9 box (Hey, they're yum-ified, > > I couldn't resist!). These kernel's and changelog can be found at: > > http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/ > > > > It appears that these kernels perhaps break either yum, db3/4, rpm, or some > > combination thereof - I'm not really sure which. Here's the error I get > > (adding -d 10 to the yum command doesn't reveal anything else): > > I'm going to have a stab in the dark and guess that your problem is > due to the kernel not having NPTL support; here's someone else with a > similar issue: > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86381 > > If you rebuild db4 without --enable-posixmutexes then things may go > better for you. > Hmm.. I though NTPL was in kernel-2.6 by default? At any rate I can't imagine a Red Hat kernel nowadays without it :) At any rate, I don't think this is the issue, as "non-privileged commands" (eg, the ones that don't make changes, like rpm -qa, yum list and yum info) work as expected when not root, whereas these same commands don't work when one is root. I'll poke about some more.. Thanks! -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nhruby@xxxxxxx> uga enterprise information technology services production systems support metaphysically wrinkle-free -------------------------------------------
