Cyrus imapd, DB4, RH 9.0 and NPTL

[Mobeen Azhar]

Ok, looks like RedHat cooked the goose with release 9.0.  I finally was able
to tracke the problem down and have a possible fix.  I have listed it in the
bugzilla report that Simon references below.

Thanks,

--Moby

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.  -- Benjamin Franklin  1759


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Simon Matter
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 06:16
To: Stephan Bauer
Cc: moby at mobsternet.com; info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Cyrus imapd, DB4, RH 9.0 and NPTL


Stephan Bauer schrieb:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> for me this package works
> http://home.teleport.ch/simix/

For me too, but not on a AMD K6-2 CPU!
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86381

Simon

> 
> Regards
> 
> Stephan
> 
> >On a RH 9.0 system, up2date upgraded glibc from glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
to
> >glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm.  Now it appears that anything applications
that
> >use POSIX mutexes are broken (only db4 so far affecting rpm and cyrus
> >imapd).
> >
> >I was able to get rpm to work by doing a --rebuildb.
> >
> >Cyrus imapd will still not work.  I saw that any places in Cyrus imapd
> >trying to use db4 would break.  So, I downloaded db4-4.0.14-20.src.rpm
and
> >tried to do a rpmbuild on it.  Lo and behold, while doing rpmbuild, the
> >build bombs during the configure phase complaining about POSIX mutex
support
> >not being found.  Looking at the spec file, I see that this requires NPTL
> >support.  I though that NPTL support was shipped with RH 9.0.  Is this
true?
> >If so, does updating glibc from 2.3.2-11.9 to 2.3.2-27.9 break it?
> >
> >I am going to edit the db4 spec file and take out the --enable-mutexes
> >option from configure to see if then I can get a good build of DB4 and
> >whether that will take care of the DB4 problems that Cyrus imapd is
> >complaining about.  Anyone have any thoughts on NPTL in RH 9.0 as regards
> >DB4 and whether the glibc update mentioned above break NPTL or not?
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any help,
> >--Moby
> >
> >They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety
> >deserve neither liberty nor safety.  -- Benjamin Franklin
> >
> >First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a
> >Jew.
> >Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was
not
> >a Communist.
> >Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I
was
> >not a trade unionist.
> >Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
> >
> >--  Pastor Martin Niemöller
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >