Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-19 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:12:18 -0700 (PDT), Miguel M. wrote: Doh! after like 3 mins I get this error message: error: db4 error(16) from dbenv-remove: Device or resource busy Which you can ignore safely. It is a known bug, but harmless. To work

RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
I was wondering if there is a way to fix RPM. Basically every time I launch an rpm package from an icon, RH ask for the root password and then while its processing header files, it just goes away. It crashes. Same thing when I do it from the terminal. goes: # rpm -Uvh foo.rpm Processing... #

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Rilindo Foster
You probably have some stale locked files in your /var/rpm directory - they all start with ___somefilename. mv them to a different directory, run rpm --rebuilddb and try again. On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:32, Miguel M. wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to fix RPM. Basically every time I

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
thxs for the help. Is this process supppose to take a while? Cause think its working but its going on for some time and the __somefile i moved were put back in. That suppose to happen? --- Rilindo Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably have some stale locked files in your /var/rpm

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
Doh! after like 3 mins I get this error message: error: db4 error(16) from dbenv-remove: Device or resource busy ... as always I have no clue... :/ --- Miguel M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thxs for the help. Is this process supppose to take a while? Cause think its working but its going on for

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:12:18 -0700 (PDT) Miguel M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doh! after like 3 mins I get this error message: error: db4 error(16) from dbenv-remove: Device or resource busy Hi Miguel, Any chance you're running with a custom built kernel ? You'll need to update to the

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
the kernel version im running is 2.4.20-19.9 and I got via up2date. still not ready to build my own. Do still have to do that export thing? --- Sean Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Miguel, Any chance you're running with a custom built kernel ? You'll need to update to the

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Ian Mortimer
Doh! after like 3 mins I get this error message: error: db4 error(16) from dbenv-remove: Device or resource busy It would be worth checking for any running rpm processes: ps -ef | grep rpm You need to kill them (probably with -KILL if they're hung). When there are no running rpm

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Miguel M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the kernel version im running is 2.4.20-19.9 and I got via up2date. still not ready to build my own. Do still have to do that export thing? The export will get it working yes... Cheers, Sean -- redhat-list

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
Only process I see is: root 2673 1 0 23:37 ?00:00:08 nautilus --sm-config-prefix /nau tilus-T58KB6/ --sm-client-id 117f0100010610877980029570003 --screen 0 fi le:///var/lib/rpm -- Not sure how to kill this. So I restart the computer and its

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Miguel M. wrote: thxs for the help. Is this process supppose to take a while? Cause think its working but its going on for some time and the __somefile i moved were put back in. That suppose to happen? Yes. --rebuilddb takes a while, and the __db.* files are a normal part of operations. --

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Miguel M. wrote: Doh! after like 3 mins I get this error message: error: db4 error(16) from dbenv-remove: Device or resource busy This is a harmless error message. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
Not sure what happened, but everything seems to be working fine (knock on wood...). Thxs to all that helped. Anyone have an idea as to what might have caused this? Dont want it to happen again... = -Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!