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[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