Re: RPM error/ corrupt database???

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:37:38PM +0100, A.J. Werkman wrote:
> While installing tftp-server and tftp client through the command "rpm -Uvh 
> tftp*.rpm" rpm hung after it had reached the 100% count on installing the 
> first rpm.
> 
> After this every rpm command (like rpm -qa) hangs forever (well at least 
> 15 minutes). The only thing to stop the rpm-process is a "kill -9". 
> <contrl>-c on the controling console isn't doing much then.
> 
> In the "/var/lib/rpm"-dir I found a few files "__db.*" with the current 
> timestamp. So I thought I'd remove them. After doing so the "rpm -qa" 
> command is functioning again.
> But as soon as I do a "rpm --rebuilddb" rpm stops with the following 
> message:
> [root werk root]# rpm --rebuilddb
> error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy
> [root werk root]#
You did the right thing. The error you gor from rpm --rebuilddb
happens to all of us and don't worry about it. It is a bug.
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