Re: 2.5 'what to expect'

[Jeff Garzik]

Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Robert Love wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 07:26, Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>
>>>or upgrade to rpm 4.2 (which I'd recommend everyone does anyway as it
>>>fixes a load of other problems) - ftp.rpm.org
>>
>>I think the 2.5 problem is _only_ in rpm 4.2.
>>
>>It looks like it is still in the latest version, too:
>>
>>[10:32:41]root@phantasy:~# rpm -q rpm
>>rpm-4.2.1-0.11
>>[10:32:44]root@phantasy:~# rpm --rebuilddb
>>error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy
> 
> 
> That's not the 2.5 problem. This one also happens with Red Hat's own
> 2.4 vendor kernels for Red Hat 9, and according to RPM's maintainer
> it's a "harmless" message.

Well, speaking with the rpm maintainer today, there are still issues 
with O_DIRECT (db4) and NPTL.

	Jeff