<snip>
If you experience hangs in RPM, it is usually a corrupt database index.
Fortunately, this is very easy to fix:
# rm /var/lib/rpm/_*
Just remove all files with a leading underscore ("_"), from the /var/lib/rpm
directory. This will clear up 99% of failure cases. For that other <1%, you
need more help than I can give.
</snip>
Dave Tibbals wrote:
> Hi All,
> My system hung during package removal. After regaining control the rpm
> database appears to be corrupted. I am receiving the following error
> while attempting to do rpm --rebuilddb, "error: db4 error(16) from
> dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy". Any advice would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> David T
