On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 09:49, Gary Thornock wrote:
> A couple of days ago I tried to apt-get upgrade, and ever since, I get this error
> whenever I try to do anything with RPM or apt:
> 
> 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)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> E: could not open RPM database
> 
> As a wild guess, I'd suppose that the RPM database is corrupt.  Is there a good
> way to fix this?  (rpm --rebuilddb didn't work.)

First check if for some strange reason one of your filesystems is full.


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