Re: [[e-mail]: Error in UP2DATE]

[Florian La Roche]

>  It's likely the db4/nptl combo doing wierd things. Try setting
>  LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 *or* recompiling the rpm package after 
This did it.

>  disabling --enable-posixmutexes in the rpm.spec file.
>  
>  Search the rpm-list list archives for 'O_DIRECT' and/or
>  'posixmutexes'. There's a whole set of ugliness goin' on, and the Red
>  Hat kernels have their open(2) calls hacked to avoid it. Other,
>  non-Red Hat kernels run into trouble with db's write() calls. 
O_DIRECT should be disabled in my db4.

Thanks,

Florian La Roche