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?
I got your message directed at me personally, Chuck, and I responded.
For the sake of the others on the list, here's what I said:
It wasn't yum, it's RPM and its ongoing flubup with the database system.
Go into /var/lib/rpm and delete the __db.001 __db.002 and __db.003
(those start with two underscores). Then, as root:
rpm --rebuilddb
and wait a while. That should fix it. A script to do it is:
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#!/bin/bash
echo -n Cleaning up corrupted databases...
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
echo Done
echo
echo -n Rebuilding databases...
rpm --rebuilddb
echo Done
echo
echo RPM databases rebuilt
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This has been an ongoing issue with rpm and the db3/db4 packages. I
don't know if they'll ever sort it out. If you ever get those kinds of
messages in the future, that's the fix.