No rpm, no sound, no zip, and no kdm image.

[Tony Nelson]

At 8:48 AM -0400 6/18/05, Zoran Spasojevic wrote:
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>>On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 12:00:26AM -0400, Zoran Spasojevic wrote:
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>>>[root at zoran download]# rpm -ivh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
>>>rpmdb: unable to initialize mutex: Function not implemented
>>>rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/__db.001: unable to initialize environment lock:
>>>Function not implemented
>>>error: db4 error(38) from dbenv->open: Function not implemented
>>>error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Function not implemented (38)
>>>error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
 ...
>I can nor run rpm as root. Whatever command I try to execute it prints the
>same statement. Rpm seems to work when I start the system in run level 1.
>In run level 1 I executed this command and it finished without an error
>but as root, it still gave the same error. This corruption of the database
>seem to occur even if I change desktops: switching between kde and gnome.
>There is some fundamental issue with FC4 that is causing this to occur.
>Thanks for your suggestion

Maybe this is a problem with SELinux.  (Or maybe not.  What do I know?)  If
this helps:

setenforce 0

then try this:

touch /.autorelabel
reboot (with SELinux enabled)

This advice was gleaned from other posts on this list.
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