[Mageia-dev] Heads Up

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>From: Jeff Johnson <n3npq at mac.com>
>Sent: Feb 22, 2011 8:14 PM
>To: cooker at mandrivalinux.org
>Subject: [Cooker] Upgrding db-5.1.19 -> db-5.1.26 needs full rebuilds
>
>(cool! a bug related to RPM might have been found _BEFORE_ it ended up in cooker-devel e-mail ;-)
>
>I got a bug report from bero at Arklinux with these symptoms:
>
>Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>rpmdb: not a restored transaction
>rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument
>==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x9833aa8, PANIC(0), 0xbfe2b5d4) app_private (nil)
>rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
>==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x9833aa8, PANIC(0), 0xbfe2b6cc) app_private (nil)
>  1:xorg                   ########################################### [ 20%]
>rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
>==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x9833aa8, PANIC(0), 0xbfe2b5bc) app_private (nil)
>
>I've never ever seen that 1st Berkeley DB error before.
>
>A quick check with Google found this report:
>    http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2175221&tstart=0
>and I just confirmed with jcea that upgrading to db-5.1.26 without rebuilding
>everything that uses/needs
>	#include <db.h>
>will lead to  "not a restored transaction".
>
>Presumably some #define got changed, breaking (for the 1st time ever afaik)
>the typical expectation that 5.1.19 -> 5.1.26 is just bug fix patches.
>
>Disclaimer:
>    This is still just 2nd hand info because I haven't personally looked.
>
>So -- if you go to db-5.1.26 -- plan on rebuilding RPM and whatever
>else is linking -ldb-5.1.
>
>There's nothing critically important in db-5.1.26 (or I would remember).
>
>It would be nice to get on the other side of this minor "speed bump"
>in Berkeley DB by 2011.0 release. But db-5.1.19 is known "gud enuf" by now.
>
>hth
>
>73 de Jeff
>	
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