RPM broken when 2.6.0 test kernel installed?

[Jeff Johnson]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:00:22AM -0400, Glen Maeding wrote:
> The reason why im asking how to fix this is i cannot 'rpm -e' this kernel.  This makes it very difficult to undo the benign damage i did to my laptop heh.  Dont get me wrong, I am pleased with the kernel i have installed, but what happens when a new kernel test version comes out in rpm?  Ack...
> 
> *	** Glen Maeding
> *	** MIS Tech @ Kidspeace Inc.
> *	** Webmaster of MIS-comm, Pdangel.org, and others...
> *	** E-mail: gmaeding at kidspeace.org
> *	** Pager e-mail: goik at tmail.com
> 

Yup.

> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen Maeding 
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:43 AM
> To: rhl-beta-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: RPM broken when 2.6.0 test kernel installed?
> 
> 
> I did that and this is what it reported back:
> 
> rpmdb: write: 0xbfffd500, 8192: Invalid argument
> error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
> error: cannot open Packages index
> 

This is new-fangled O_DIRECT semantics in latest kernel, EINVAL returned
by write(2) is the clue.

Problem is fixed in rpm-4.2-1 packages (for RHL9) at
	ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.2.x

Boot some other kernel, fix problems, boot original kernel is probably
fastest approach; otherwise, install using rpm2cpio.

73 de Jeff

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