Re: RPM Issue

Simon Baker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.openwall.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 24 Mar 2010, at 16:04, Simon Baker wrote:

>
> On 24 Mar 2010, at 16:01, (GalaxyMaster) wrote:
>
>> Simon,
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 03:53:08PM +0000, Simon Baker wrote:
>>> rpmdb: unable to join the environment
>>> error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily  
>>> unavailable
>>> error: cannot open Packages index
>>> make: *** [installworld] Error 1
>>
>> Please try to do 'rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00?' followed by 'rpm -- 
>> rebuilddb'.
>
>
> Yep, done that.  Moved /var/lib/rpm out of the way and started again  
> too... :-(
>
> *Sometimes* that will fix the problem for one 'go', but then I'm  
> back to square one.
>


Hrm,

I think I'll do an upgrade-install over the top of my system.  Things  
are seriously weird...

tachikoma!root:/usr/src/world# rpm -qa | grep ^db
db4-doc-4.3.29-owl5
db4-4.3.29-owl5
db4-utils-4.3.29-owl5
db4-compat-fake-4.3.29-owl5
db4-devel-4.3.29-owl5
tachikoma!root:/usr/src/world# rpm -qa | grep ^rpm
tachikoma!root:/usr/src/world# rpm -Uvh RPMS/rpm-
rpm-4.2-owl21.i686.rpm        rpm-build-4.2-owl21.i686.rpm  rpm- 
devel-4.2-owl21.i686.rpm
tachikoma!root:/usr/src/world# rpm -Uvh RPMS/rpm-4.2-owl21.i686.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
	libz.so is needed by rpm-4.2-owl21
tachikoma!root:/usr/src/world# rpm -Uvh RPMS/zlib-*
Preparing...                 
########################################### [100%]
	package zlib-1.2.3-owl1 is already installed
	package zlib-devel-1.2.3-owl1 is already installed


S.

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