Kevin, This should be a RH9 FAQ. I'm told it's a benign error you can safely ignore. As long as you first delete those /var/lib/rpm/__db.* files before running 'rpm --rebuilddb', and the task otherwise completes successfully, don't worry. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL On Friday May 9, 2003 Kevin Waterson wrote: > Why would I be getting this error? > > [root@xxxxx dev]# rpm --rebuilddb > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy