Re: 2.6.2-rc1

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 23:40:35 EST


On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:32:59 EST, Stephen Clark <stephen.clark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hello,
>
> I am running RH9 with the latest kernel and get the following when I try
> to use rpm:
> rpm -qa
> 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)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> no packages

1) Later releases of RPM (from Fedora) have this fixed. Fedora-development
currently has rpm-4.3-0.7. Pre-reqs are your problem. :)

2) 'LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 rpm -qa' also works around it.

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