Re: db error

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Marcus Habermehl (BMH1980) wrote:

> Hi.
>
> After updating rpm to from 4.4.7 to 4.4.8 I can't install/erase/ 
> update packages.
>
> I get many of this lines till I kill rpm.
>
> rpmdb: unable to initialize mutex: Operation not supported

Hmmm, you likely don't have functioning posix mutexes for some reason.

> rpmdb: PANIC: Operation not supported
> rpmdb: unable to join the environment
> error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal  
> error, run database recovery
> error: Runnning db->verify ...
>
> Updating db to 4.5.20 and rebuild rpm with the new db package  
> doesn't solve it.
>
> What can I do to solve this?

What platform?
What distro?

73 de Jeff