[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#565242: Bug#565242: libdb-dev: db4.8 breaks multiple programs

Clint Adams schizo at debian.org
Thu Jan 14 06:49:53 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 09:07:56PM -0800, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> Whilst creating a new sendmail package, I pulled in the current
> libdb-dev (4.8), and found that the built package is broken - at least
> the db related portions.
> 	>> # makemap hash access < access
> 	>> access.db: Invalid type 5 specified
> 	>> makemap: error opening type hash map access: Invalid argument 
> 
> Downgrading to db4.7 allows things to once again work.
> A search showed this to be a known issue:
> 	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.sendmail/browse_thread/thread/681b0167dc95bf10
> 	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294819

Can you elaborate on the "multiple programs" bit?  I see nothing about this on forums.oracle.com.

Could you confirm that db->open is being called with dbtype equal to 2?





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