[Yum] Yum (or rpm) no workie with kernel-2.6?

[Geoffrey D. Bennett]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:27:14AM -0500, nathan r. hruby wrote:
[...]
> So the other day I got crafty and decided to try out Arjan van de Ven's
> 2.6 test-kernels on a fully patched Red Hat 9 box (Hey, they're yum-ified,
> I couldn't resist!).  These kernel's and changelog can be found at:  
> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/
> 
> It appears that these kernels perhaps break either yum, db3/4, rpm, or some
> combination thereof - I'm not really sure which.  Here's the error I get
> (adding -d 10 to the yum command doesn't reveal anything else):

I'm going to have a stab in the dark and guess that your problem is
due to the kernel not having NPTL support; here's someone else with a
similar issue:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86381

If you rebuild db4 without --enable-posixmutexes then things may go
better for you.

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