On Thursday 28 of June 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> > # rpm -qa
> > rpmdb: unable to initialize mutex: Operation not supported
> > rpmdb: PANIC: Operation not supported
>
> You have misbuilt rpm. There is autoconfiggery necessary and
> the build system must be setup +NPTL.

The setup always has been nptl ready (glibc 2.6; >= 2.6.16 kernels)

> +1 for support problems with external Berkeley DB.

Looks like these new things from robustness patch require kernel >= 2.6.17 
(because the problem is not visible on such kernels with exactly the same 
userspace environment).

I've dropped robustness patch from our system db. PLD lived for a very (very) 
long time with external db and without the patch btw :)

> 73 de Jeff

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