Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

[Net Llama!]

On 08/27/03 19:21, Robert E. Raymond wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I finally gave up on Gentoo for my pianist's computer today and 
> installed Redhat 9.  It's currently reminding me why I don't use an RPM 
> based distro myself, though it is pretty nice and once I get a few 
> things fixed it will be great for my pianist (for one he needs a GUI for 
> just about everything and Gentoo doesn't provide that).
> 
> Here's the issue:  It's with RPM-
> 
> Any time I do anything RPM related (be it installing a new one, running 
> rpmdb --initdb gives it too (thought that might be the issue, but I've 
> not used RPM in at least a year)) I get this: (this one specifically 
> from rpmdb --initdb)
> 
> 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)
> 
> Similar stuff occurs when I'm trying to install an RPM.
> 
> This is an SGI-installer based Redhat 9, no updates, etc. (partly 
> because the system is currently modemless due to the many recent 
> thunderstorms).  Any ideas of what I could do to fix RPM?

Google is your friend:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=3E7A9E20.4000908%40togami.com.lucky.linux.kernel&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fas_epq%3Drpmdb%253A%2520unable%2520to%2520join%2520the%2520environment%2520%26safe%3Doff%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26lr%3D%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den



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