On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, 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.)
Did you try:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
Those are the lock files for the rpm database--if an RPM-managing process
is killed, you usually have to get rid of these. See also this page:
http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/
~ ross
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