No rpm, no sound, no zip, and no kdm image.

Zoran Spasojevic news at heligon.com
Sat Jun 18 04:00:26 UTC 2005


I installed FC4 a couple of days ago and I encountered a whole set of 
fundamental problems with it.
Wren I log-in in run-lever 3 to install NVidia drivers I lost rpm as a 
root.
When I run, for example, rpm -qa as a root or try to is install real 
player I get

[root at zoran download]# rpm -ivh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
rpmdb: unable to initialize mutex: Function not implemented
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/__db.001: unable to initialize environment lock: 
Function not implemented
error: db4 error(38) from dbenv->open: Function not implemented
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Function not implemented (38)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

Any ideas what is wrong?

Zip does not work. When I try to mount it the following happens:
Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: special device /dev/hdd4 does not exist

Actually /dev/hdd4 does exist but does not seem to be the right device.
Any ideas about this one?

Then when it comes to sound, I think alsa-kernel does not work well.
For snd-cs46xx, I get the following message when I try to play a wave file:

[15:27:58] alsa_dump_configuration: status of hw:0,0
hw_params status of hw:0,0
ACCESS:  RW_INTERLEAVED
FORMAT:  S16_LE
SUBFORMAT:  STD
SAMPLE_BITS: 16
FRAME_BITS: 16
CHANNELS: 1
RATE: [5500 48000]
PERIOD_TIME: (21333 186182)
PERIOD_SIZE: 1024
PERIOD_BYTES: 2048
PERIODS: 3
BUFFER_TIME: [64000 558546)
BUFFER_SIZE: 3072
BUFFER_BYTES: 6144
TICK_TIME: 1000
sw_params status of hw:0,0
start_mode: DATA
xrun_mode: STOP
tstamp_mode: NONE
period_step: 0
sleep_min: 0
avail_min: 0
xfer_align: 0
silence_threshold: 0
silence_size: 0
boundary: 0

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Then the image for kdm that I choose does not show. The usual Bluecurve 
login display shows.
There were a few comments earlier in this list but none of the 
suggestions work.

The first 3 issues are quite fundamental that makes me think that RC1 is 
better suited for this release.
It has more problems than even FC1 when it came out.
I would be grateful to anyone that has suggestions about the list of 
problems above.
Thanks,
Zoran




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