On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 07:03, anthony baldwin wrote: > I seem to be unable to use yum. > I get this kind of response EVERY time: > > [root@xxxxxxxxx tony]# yum install opera > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 base > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 updates > rpmdb: unable to join the environment > error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "yummain.py", line 145, in main > File "clientStuff.py", line 146, in rpmdbNevralLoad > File "clientStuff.py", line 139, in openrpmdb > NameError: global name 'RpmError' is not defined > [root@xxxxxxxxx tony]# You installed the wrong version of yum on the wrong version of rhl. Take a look at the table on the yum webpage: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/ also - did you have another rpm-based application locking your db at the time? it sure looks like it from that error. -sv
