yum/rpm hosed me yesterday

[Chuck Campbell]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:03:20PM -0400, jludwig wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 15:31, Chuck Campbell wrote:
> > I installed yum on my rh9 box, and it looked like it was working.
> > 
> > At least yum check-updates showed a lot of packages for me to update.
> > 
> > I saw that rpm was on the list, so I did yum update rpm*
> > 
> > It went through all of its steps without errors, and I thought "this is
> > the best thing since sliced bread"
> > 
> > I did rpm -qa | grep rpm to verify the current version and I get this:
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > Now it appears I'm stuffed.  What do I do next?
> > 
> > -chuck
> > 
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> Make sure you have good mirrors and restart.  Yum won't do anything
> until it has downloaded all the needed packages.

well, yum did do something, it installed the new rpm package, which it turns
out had some breakage.

Thanks to Rick Stevens, I've gotten it fixed (see later this thread)

-chuck