[SWLUG] RPM Problems

Dylan Davies d.davies at cs.cardiff.ac.uk
Tue Oct 14 17:33:16 UTC 2003


I booted into my old 2.4 kernel and RPM now works!. Are there any
libraries i need to updated now ive gone to linux 2.6-test7?

Thanks for the help

On Maw, 2003-10-14 at 12:00, Bryn Reeves wrote:
> On 11:27 Tue 14 Oct     , 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
> > 
> > Please help
> > 
> > Dylan Davies
> > 
> > 
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> I've not had that particular problem, but have you tried running RPM
> with the --initdb or --rebuilddb options as root? Might help..
> 
> Bryn
> 
> 
> 





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