[mythtv-users] Re: vmlinuz and rpm db4 problems (FC1, ATrpms)

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:57:25PM -0800, Mike Jasper wrote:
> 1) I was fooling around with ALSA tonight and uninstalled the 
> kernel-module-alsa package.  I tried reinstalling it (also the alsa-kmdl 
> package), but got an error like this:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   kernel-module-alsa-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl: Depends: 
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl but it is not installable

Do you have RedHat's updates in the sources.list?

> I have /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl_52.rhfc1.at.  I tried making a 
> symlink to it named vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl, but that didn't help. 
> What gives?  Even if I fix problem #2 below, I still have no ALSA.

That's another kernel and requires another alsa-kmdl package.

> 2) I did an apt-get dist-upgrade tonight and now my rpm database seems 
> to be hosed.  Tried finding a solution on Google but didn't come up with 
> much.  Here's what I get why I try to do anything related to rpm:
> 
> # rpm -qa | grep kmdl
> rpmdb: Berkeley DB library configured to support only DB_PRIVATE 
> environments
> 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

Check out http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=384:

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
export -n LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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