[SWLUG] RPM Problems

[Mark Fisher]

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On Tuesday 14 October 2003 10:27 am, Dylan Davies wrote:
> Every time i try rpm -i 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

Try rpm --rebuilddb which will try and rebuild the rpm database.  If that 
failed, mv the current db to, say rpm.old and try rpm --initdb which will 
build a new db from scratch.

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	Mark
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