Re: 2.6.0-mm2 Surprises

From: Felipe Alfaro Solana (felipe_alfaro_at_linuxmail.org)
Date: 12/31/03

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    To: Danny Cox <Danny.Cox@ECWeb.com>
Date:	Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:27:57 +0100

    On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 15:17, Danny Cox wrote:

    > First, 'make menuconfig' doesn't work. It paints the top 8 or so lines,
    > and freezes. gnome-terminal begins using as much CPU as it's allowed.
    > This is similar to bug 959 in bugme.osdl.org, but changing CHILD_PENALTY
    > from 90 to 130 didn't fix the problem.
    >
    > Second, simply resizing gnome-terminal results in the same behavior.
    > Certainly, this may be a gnome thing.

    It's a known issue with gnome-terminal. You'll need to upgrade to the
    latest gnome-terminal and vte packages.

    "make menuconfig" works nicely here under KDE and text-only console.

    > Third, 'rpm' cannot install packages. It always exists with:
    >
    > rpmdb: unable to join the environment
    > error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
    > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily
    > unavailable (11)
    > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

    Again, this is not a kernel problem.

    rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

    Then, try "rpm -i" again.

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