2.6.4 kernel and rpm

[Robert Murphy]

I have a RH9 system which I'm changing to use a 2.6 kernel. I now have the
kernel booting, all seems well but rpm is broken.

I get error messages along the lines of

rpmdb: write: 0xbffec300, 8192: Invalid argument
error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

If I boot the old 2.4 kernel rpm works fine. Using rpm version 4.2, I don't
know what other info may be relevant. It was suggested that I use a 3.x
procps instead of the 2.x series so I have procps-3.2.0-1.1

I also had to disable the ramdisk in grub.conf as it was causing problems,
boots OK without it.

Could anyone please help on the rpm problem?

Thanks

Robert
robertjmurphy<insertobviouscharacter>exp.com.au

[Lenard]

On Thu, 06 May 2004 12:12:45 +1000, Robert Murphy wrote:

> I have a RH9 system which I'm changing to use a 2.6 kernel. I now have the
> kernel booting, all seems well but rpm is broken.

<snip>

> Could anyone please help on the rpm problem?

Using the old kernel upgrade the rpm and popt packages found here;

ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.2.x/

--
"In short, without this exclusive franchise, called the Windows API,
we would have been dead a long time ago." M$ Senior VP Bob Muglia '96

[pajamian]

Lenard wrote on 05/05/2004 23:27 ET :
> On Thu, 06 May 2004 12:12:45 +1000, Robert Murphy wrote:
>
>> I have a RH9 system which I'm changing to use a 2.6 kernel. I now have the
>> kernel booting, all seems well but rpm is broken.
>>
>>
>>
> <snip>
>
>> Could anyone please help on the rpm problem?
>>
>>
>>
> Using the old kernel upgrade the rpm and popt packages found here;
>
> ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.2.x/
>
>

> "In short, without this exclusive franchise, called the Windows API,
> we would have been dead a long time ago." M$ Senior VP Bob Muglia '96
>

I just had this same issue trying to move an old RH9 box to a VM (which
necessiated upgrading the kernel). This solution worked great for me, but the
packages mentioned are no longer available at the above mentioned site. If
anyone else needs to find these packages I was able to find them at:

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.2.x/rpm-4.2-1.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.2.x/popt-1.8-1.i386.rpm

After upgrading to the above two packages everything works great! Thanks.