On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 21:53, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This is not guaranteed to fix your problem, but it just might. If your > machine is SMP on Linux, it is almost guaranteed that DB 4.1 will give you > severe headaches.
If I remember correctly, the bdb that ships with Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 1 is _known_ to be FUBAR for some apps due to threading problems. Something to do with using native POSIX threading support in glibc and the kernel, I think. I've certainly never had much luck with it, and prefer to link against a bdb4.2 build in /usr/local for site-local apps installs. Of course, then you can run into all _sorts_ of fun if a PAM or nss module you use happens to be linked to a different version of bdb... *shudders*. My favourite wasn't bdb, but (if I remember correctly) actually a sasl1/sasl2 linking issue with the LDAP client libs and saslauthd. I'm beginning to find *BSD with the package-free approach more and more tempting. I expect it wouldn't solve most of the problems, and no doubt introduces new and different ones, but the grass is always greener.... Craig Ringer --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
