On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 18:50, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > I removed the files, but the error persists > > [root@xxxxx dev]# rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* -rf > > [root@xxxxx dev]# ls /var/lib/rpm/ > Basenames Dirnames Group Name Providename Pubkeys Requireversion Sigmd5 > Conflictname Filemd5s Installtid Packages Provideversion Requirename Sha1header Triggername Keep in mind that doing this -- removing the __db.* files -- is almost always good enough to recover from the hung rpm situation. You really should not have to do this next step: > [root@xxxxx dev]# rpm --rebuilddb > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy > As others have said, this "error" message is ugly but does not actually mean anything is wrong. Especially since there was probably no need to run that command anyway. --Jeremy
