All rpm Commands Hang Indefinitely (RH 9)

[Tim Evans]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:38:39 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote
> On Tuesday 25 July 2006 14:28, Tim Evans wrote:
> > In looking into this, I see all 'rpm' commands (even simple queries) hang
> > in the same way.  Man page doesn't mention it, but is there a lockfile
> > somewhere that's holding things up?  Or something else?
> 
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

Thanks.

# rpm --rebuilddb
error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy

The removed files have reappeared...
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