The -vv helped. It was working, just giving that error part way through. It does seem to be working ok now.
Thanks for the help. James On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 10:29, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 27 Aug 2003 08:34:17 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > > > I'm running Redhat 9 on several systems. I just installed a new system > > for testing some stuff and started having this problem: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm --rebuilddb > > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy > > See here: > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8328 > > It's a harmless bug. > > > Well, it started when I was unable to remove an rpm, so I tried > > rebuilding the rpmdb. I did some searching and apparently there is/was a > > bugtrap on this, but that it has been closed even though no real fix is > > available. That could be incorrect information. > > Terminate/kill all running rpm processes or package tools. > Then run: > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* > rpm -vv --rebuilddb > > rpm should be able to erase packages again. > > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/TMBY0iMVcrivHFQRAvHkAJ0UOYnUMkiM2sSu4rMFuDwuK1mCRgCdHmLR > EVCentVj6R67lYRTnRyje20= > =j8UX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
