On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 00:21, D. D. Brierton wrote: > Last night I tried to install the latest totem and xine-libs from > freshrpms and rpm hung. I did the usual: > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* > rpm --rebuilddb > When rpm appeared to hang, did you check the running processes to be 100% sure that rpm was not running anymore before erasing the locks? Note that --rebuilddb should almost never be needed. I myself have never needed it during rpm-4.2 through the Phoebe betas and Shrike. Erasing the locks has been sufficient for fixing RPM problems for me. > but now this constantly returns this error: > > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy > > Does anyone know what this error means and how to fix it? > > Are there updated rpm packages, either on rawhide or on > people.redhat.com, that I should upgrade to? That's odd... try this again 1) Erase the locks only, do not rebuilddb 2) Or Reboot It may not help, but it is worth a try. Warren Togami warren@xxxxxxxxxx
