Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (84 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:57:50PM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:31:55AM +0200, Lorenzo Villani wrote:
> > I'm having this problem on Fedora (9):
> >
> > rpmdb: illegal flag specified to DB->cursor
> > error: db4 error(22) from db->cursor: Invalid argument
> >
> > This usually happens when using zypper and then yum or vice-versa.
> > I don't know what's causing this problem but running rpm --rebuilddb
> > usually fixes this.
>
> Looking at the berkeley db code it seems to me that libzypp or
> libsatsolver use the dbenv somewhat different than rpm:
>
>         switch (flags) {
>         case 0:
>                 break;
>         case DB_WRITECURSOR:
>                 if (IS_READONLY(dbp))
>                         return (__db_rdonly(dbenv, "DB->cursor"));
>                 if (!CDB_LOCKING(dbenv))
>                         return (__db_ferr(dbenv, "DB->cursor", 0)); 
>                 break;
>
> It must be that CDB_LOCKING() test. I've no clue why this happens,
> though.

Does it still happen if you add DB_INIT_CDB to the dbenv->open call
in repo_rpmdb.c? (Maybe you also have to delete DB_PRIVATE, but first
try with just DB_INIT_CDB.)

Cheers,
  Michael.

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