yum/rpm hosed me yesterday

[jludwig]

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.

Try <yum -t -y update>

the -t allows for fault/error tolerance

    -y answer all questions as yes
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>