[PlanetCCRMA] rh 9.0: problems after using up2date (glibc and nscd)

[Olaf Giesbrecht]

thanks fernando - you got it again ...

i need the planetkernel, so i decided to downgrade with rpm -Uvh
--oldpakage and it worked fine. now everything works again like
before...

thanks and greeting from a happy planet-user,

olaf

Am Die, 2003-11-18 um 19.33 schrieb Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano:
> > i am using a redhat9.0 system with planet-kernel and -apps. it worked
> > ok, until i did use up2date. i got the following message:
> > 
> > Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
> > ########################################
> > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
> > ########################################
> > Fetching rpm headers...
> > ########################################
> > Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> > ########################################
> > glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7.i686.rpm ########################## Done.
> > glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.7.i ########################## Done.
> > glibc-devel-2.3.2-27.9.7.i3 ########################## Done.
> > nscd-2.3.2-27.9.7.i386.rpm: ########################## Done.
> > Preparing              ###########################################
> > [100%]
> >  
> > Installing...
> >    1:glibc-common           ###########################################
> > [100%]
> >    2:glibc                  ###########################################
> > [100%]
> >    3:glibc-devel            ###########################################
> > [100%]
> >    4:nscd                   ###########################################
> > [100%]
> > error: db4 error(-30989) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND:
> > Requested page not found
> > error: db4 error(-30989) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND:
> > Requested page not found
> 
> Seems like rpm itself hit an error in its database... looks like by that
> time it had already installed all packages so you are probably ok in
> that respect. 
> 
> > The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration:
> > Name                                    Version        Rel  Reason
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > kernel-source                           2.4.20         20.9 Pkg
> > name/pattern
> >
> > after rebooting, my system started to boot with several error-messages
> > and a lot of stuff is not working (for example my browsers, my terminal
> > command line in x, ...)
> >
> > in this mailing-list i read something about problems with glibc - but i
> > didnt understand it :-(
> > so perhaps the same problem ? but what do i have to do now ? 
> 
> Did you try to boot into the original redhat kernel? Or the Planet CCRMA
> Redhat kernel with capabilities? Those kernels should work fine. The bug
> in glibc is only triggered if you boot into a kernel without nptl
> support (like the Planet CCRMA kernel). 
> 
> I thought that the bug was already fixed....
> 
> If not you need to either boot into a kernel that has nptl support or
> revert to a previous version of glibc. 
> 
> Once you get things going you could rebuild the rpm databse, which was
> probably left in a bad state:
>   rpm --rebuilddb
> (it will take a while). 
> 
> -- Fernando
> 
> 
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