On Dec 30, 2004, at 4:29 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 00:03 -0500, Jason Dixon wrote:
Hi folks:
I've recently migrated one of my production servers (bad Jason!) from WBEL to CentOS 3.3 using Donavan's instructions in the FAQ (http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19). While it was as painless as the document suggests, I've run into problems with postgrey (a postfix greylisting daemon) on my server. Whenever I try to start postgrey, I get the following error (trimmed from maillog):
ERROR: can't create DB environment: No such file or directory
A little research led me to find the error was caused by a call to BerkeleyDB::Env->new() in postgrey. I can recreate it in a simple Perl one-liner:
perl -e 'use BerkeleyDB; my $db = BerkeleyDB::Env->new() or die "blah";'
This leads me to believe that something is wrong with db4, so I upgraded (--force) to the CentOS db4 package. Unfortunately, this had no effect. Speaking with Dag in IRC a couple nights back, he believes my only recourse may be to "pin" my apt sources and attempt to upgrade all of my WBEL-based packages to their CentOS counterparts. I would really like to avoid this; if necessary, I think I'd prefer to try and upgrade from the 3.3 ISO.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on this?
I've upgraded more than a dozen machines from WBEL to CentOS-3 ... and I haven't had any problems. I don't have the perl module "BerkeleyDB.pm" on any of my machines though...nor is it on my CentOS-4beta "Full Install" machine that I use as a build machine for CentOS-4beta. What package installs it?
The perl-BerkeleyDB package over at Dag's repository. I've tried reinstalling it from source rpm and the db4 package from CentOS, but that doesn't help.
At this point, I wonder if it would be a magnificent disaster to just download all the base rpm's, the updates rpm's, and just do a massive "rpm -Fvh --force" on everything.
-- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net