Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

[Robert E. Raymond]

Net Llama! wrote:

> On 08/27/03 19:21, Robert E. Raymond wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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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Thanks guys, that did the trick

(/me scurries off into corner and reminds self to use google next time)