Re: Wrong __dbs deleted

[M A Young <m a young durham ac uk>]

Mike Vanecek wrote:

> Still trying to figure out why I got an error rebuilding
>
> [root www rpm]# rpm --rebuilddb
> error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy

Ignore it, the error isn't important.

> Tried running --initdb ...

Oh dear, you appear to have wiped out your database. You now need to
restore it from backups, or remember what packages you had installed (look
in /var/log/rpm*) and use rpm --justdb for each package to recreate it. In
some cases it is simpler to re-install.

	Michael Young