I see similar discussion of this in an old thread from about a year ago ... http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0304.0/1376.html
Alan Cox no less weighing in on it. I don't see any resolution though. Thoughts?
From: "duncan brown" <duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
i must ammend my last post: that should NEVER work, you ALWAYS need to rebuild the rpm database > after removing those files. **those are your rpm database files**
i think this was a problem introduced as early as redhat 8, if i'm not mistaken (could be 9, i jumped from 7.3 to 9 on my server, which
is the only place i've seen it happen)
Vladimir G. Ivanovic said:
Whenever I have RPM problems of any sort (hang, errors) I immediately delete the __db.00{1,2.3} files (usually) in /var/lib/rpm:
If that doesn't help, I rebuild the RPM database: rpm --rebuilddb
"fs" == Fred Shaul <info@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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)
