rpm all wacked?

[admin at kclinux.net]

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)
>
>