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. -- Geoffrey D. Bennett, RHCE, RHCX geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Senior Systems Engineer http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/ NetCraft Australia Pty Ltd http://www.netcraft.com.au/linux/