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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