Quoth Robert E. Raymond: > Hi all > > I finally gave up on Gentoo for my pianist's computer today and > installed Redhat 9. It's currently reminding me why I don't use an RPM > based distro myself, though it is pretty nice and once I get a few > things fixed it will be great for my pianist (for one he needs a GUI for > just about everything and Gentoo doesn't provide that). > > Here's the issue: It's with RPM- > > Any time I do anything RPM related (be it installing a new one, running > rpmdb --initdb gives it too (thought that might be the issue, but I've > not used RPM in at least a year)) I get this: (this one specifically > from rpmdb --initdb) > > 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) > > Similar stuff occurs when I'm trying to install an RPM. > > This is an SGI-installer based Redhat 9, no updates, etc. (partly > because the system is currently modemless due to the many recent > thunderstorms). Any ideas of what I could do to fix RPM?
Google is your friend: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92247 Try: # LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpmdb --initdb Kurt -- Ah say, son, you're about as sharp as a bowlin' ball. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
