RPM broken when 2.6.0 test kernel installed?

[Bill Anderson]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 07:25, Féliciano Matias wrote:
> Le jeu 21/08/2003 à 15:05, Glen Maeding a écrit :
> > Ever since i have installed the latest rpm kernel test version 2.6.0-test from  http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/ , i have been finding that the rpm doesnt function correctly anymore.
> > 
> > Heres what happen when i try to install any RPM in general:
> > 
> > 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
> > rpmdb: unable to join the environment
> > error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> > rpmdb: unable to join the environment
> > error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> > 
> > Anybody know how to fix this problem
> 
> Reboot
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> rpm --rebuilddb

No, FIRST:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*

THEN try it out. More often than not (OK, every time so far) when things
like this have happened, this one step alone has resolved by problem w/o
needing a reboot, OR a rebuild of the rpm database.


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Bill Anderson
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bill at noreboots.com