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

[Mr. Myth]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:57:25PM -0800, Mike Jasper wrote:
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>>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:
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>>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
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>Do you have RedHat's updates in the sources.list?
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>>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.
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>That's another kernel and requires another alsa-kmdl package.
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>>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:
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>># 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
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>Check out http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=384:
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>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
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I read the bug report but it doesn't solve it for me either.

If I run the export, then rpm works ok.  The apt-get's only updated one 
package - tk.  After I unexport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL, then rpm gives the 
above error again.

Michael