This one time, at band camp, Harry Ohlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sadly, it didn't work,
Yes it did. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm]# time rpm --rebuilddb 2>&1 | tee rpm.log > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy > > real 4m34.843s > user 0m40.750s > sys 0m13.790s > > Any idea what the busy resource could be? yep, This is a warning, although it says error, and can be safely ignored >From the source.... This is scary (because the message uses the word 'error', looks like a 'hung' NFS mount error, and did not call itself a 'warning'). It breaks the *nix expectation that well-behaved processes run silently when they are free of errors. so, you can safely do rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm -vv --rebuilddb and any errors are in fact warnings and can be forgotten about over a pint of Guiness. Hopefully this will be fixed in future releases which will in no way resemble SCO code. Kind regards Kevin -- ______ (_____ \ _____) ) ____ ____ ____ ____ | ____/ / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \____) \_||_| \____) \____) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
