Fedora Core 2 Berkeley problems

[Todd Slater]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:40:47AM -0800, Chris Wilkes wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:49:20PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote:
> > With 0.93.1, built from .tar.gz.
> > 
> > In upgrading I switched from RH 9 to Fedora Core 2. Everything I try to
> > do with Berkeley gives the error:  Berkeley DB library configured to
> > support only DB_PRIVATE environments
> 
> I had an issue with FC2 on an AMD system:
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.bogofilter.general/8305
> Related to a long running issue:
>   http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91933
> with NPTL.  My fix was to find some precompiled db42 binaries
> (unfortunately I no longer have a link to them).

Ah, I caught that in my search but thought it was AMD-specific.

> That problem might be cleared up with FC3.  As for if that's related to
> your DB_PRIVATE issue, I'm not sure.

The specific error I get when trying bogoutil -d is DB_ENV->open, err:
22, Invalid argument
 
> You might try downloading the DB4.2 source from
>   http://sleepycat.com/download/db/index.shtml
> and trying to make an RPM out of it to install.

I think that's a bit beyond my ability just yet. Good-ish news is that
an RPM for 0.92.8 works OK. Go figure.

Todd