RE: Error

The only way I can think of at the moment is to check the .config file in
the /usr/src/linux directory. I'm sure there must be some other way but I
don't know what it would be.

   - David Summers

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Adrian Hirst wrote:

> A Vps is a Virtual Private Server, Yes it is a custom kernel that is used
> On these servers, is there anyway of telling if the kernel supports POSIX
> threads?
>
> Adrian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Summers [mailto:david@summersoft.fay.ar.us]
> Sent: 11 May 2004 15:08
> To: Adrian Hirst
> Subject: RE: Error
>
>
> I don't know what a "vps" system is, but the two common problems people
> have that produce that error are:
>
> 1. The kernel they are using has been compiled without POSIX threads.
> 2. The i586 db4 package for RH9 was for some reason compiled without POSIX
> threads while all the other architecture packages were compiled with
> them.
>
> Since it sounds like #2 doesn't apply to you then I'm wondering about #1.
> Do you know if it is a "custom" kernel that is installed and not one of
> the standard RPMs installed from the CDROM or downloaded from the RedHat
> RPM archives?
>
> As to how "safe" Subversion is; I've been using Subversion
> for 3 years on my own projects and for over a year on some projects at work
> and have not had any problems. One project at work has a 1.5 GB repository.
>
> - David Summers
>
>
> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Adrian Hirst wrote:
>
> > I didn't actually I am running this On a VPS with dual Pentium XEON 2.8
> >
> > I havn't got a clue what the problem is and would love to get some help on
> > this, I am slowly thinking about going on to use CVS and am not sure how
> > safe subversion is to use, if you could help me sort this out I would be
> > really grateful, my knowledge of linux is very minimal but am learning
> > slowly,
> >
> > All I can think is that its in the kernel which I have no control of on my
> > vps.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Adrian.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Summers [mailto:david@summersoft.fay.ar.us]
> > Sent: 10 May 2004 21:57
> > To: Adrian Hirst
> > Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: Re: Error
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 9 May 2004, Adrian Hirst wrote:
> >
> > > I have installed all the latest versions of the bootstrap rpm's from
> > > http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/redhat-9.0/bin/
> > >
> > > And everything has gone well until I do svnadmin create svn, I then get
> > the
> > > following error
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > svn: Berkeley DB error while creating environment for filesystem b/db:
> > >
> > > Function not implemented.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have read various posts on here regarding this error that usually
> point
> > to
> > > the faq on http://subversion.tigris.org <http://subversion.tigris.org/>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Being new to linux and its command set, I am not quite sure what to do
> and
> > > what the stuff in the faq means, if someone could help me out
> > >
> > > With what to do exactly It would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a log that this creates that I could view to find more details
> > > about this error if so what is the command?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Did you get this resolved? What computer are you runing this on, a
> > Pentium system?
> >
> > You might try grabbing db-4.0.14 SRC RPM from RedHat and recompiling with
> > the POSIX code. For some reason they didn't do that for i586 RPMS. I'm
> > getting ready to try the same thing on my brother's i586 Linux RedHat 9.0
> > box.
> >
> >
>
>

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