I had this problem the other day. I rebooted the system and came back
to it about 2 hours later and it was working.
Fred Shaul wrote:
When I try simple rpm commands, and or invoke them using up2date
getting errors ...
Help!
# rpm -qa
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages index using db3
- Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
no packages
# uname -a
Linux bilbo.scalix.local 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1
Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
