On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:37:38PM +0100, A.J. Werkman wrote: > While installing tftp-server and tftp client through the command "rpm -Uvh > tftp*.rpm" rpm hung after it had reached the 100% count on installing the > first rpm. > > After this every rpm command (like rpm -qa) hangs forever (well at least > 15 minutes). The only thing to stop the rpm-process is a "kill -9". > <contrl>-c on the controling console isn't doing much then. > > In the "/var/lib/rpm"-dir I found a few files "__db.*" with the current > timestamp. So I thought I'd remove them. After doing so the "rpm -qa" > command is functioning again. > But as soon as I do a "rpm --rebuilddb" rpm stops with the following > message: > [root@werk root]# rpm --rebuilddb > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy > [root@werk root]# You did the right thing. The error you gor from rpm --rebuilddb happens to all of us and don't worry about it. It is a bug. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
