On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Joe Nestlerode wrote:It might not be woth the effort, though. My experience is that rpm works just fine after --rebuildb despite this message. Its occurence might be a but, though. Have you checked if it's mentioned in bugzilla?
Hello,
I accidentaly deleted /var/lib/rpm. (Don't ask.) I am trying to rebuild the rpm database so, hopefully, rpm will function normally once again. But I get this error:
root / >> rpm --rebuilddb error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy
I'm at a loss. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I've been there. stock red hat 9 + a 2.6 kernel will eat your rpm database...
But I digress.
Your best bet is to snag a tarball of the rpm database from a similarly configured machine with a similar package list and just keep doing
rpm --justdb package removes until you get a decent rpm -Va.
Once that's all done, remove the lock files from /var/lib/rpm/__* and do your
rpm --rebuilddb and you should be set.
As an aside, I find messages like the one above *really* annoying. You simply don't print "devince busy" or "file not found" messages without including the device or filename in question!
- Toralf
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