rpm installation fails

[Tonatiuh]

Red Hat Enterprise linux 4.8 on Itanium2.

# rpm -Uvh cvuqdisk-1.0.1-1.rpm
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
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

# rpm -ivh cvuqdisk-1.0.1-1.rpm
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

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I installed with same kickstart file, 4 identical servers. Only one of them shows this problem. That server is also creating tons of /var/log/salinfo/raw files.

# ll
total 64
-rw------- 1 root root 5448 Aug 27 20:18 dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:18:44-cpu0-cmc0
-rw------- 1 root root 456 Aug 27 20:18 dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:18:44-cpu0-cpe0
-rw------- 1 root root 5448 Aug 27 20:18 dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:18:44-cpu1-cmc0
-rw------- 1 root root 456 Aug 27 20:19 dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:19:44-cpu0-cpe0
-rw------- 1 root root 5448 Aug 27 20:19 dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:19:44-cpu1-cmc0
-rw------- 1 root root 5448 Aug 27 20:20 dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:20:44-cpu1-cmc0
-rw------- 1 root root 456 Aug 27 20:20 dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:20:45-cpu0-cpe0
-rw------- 1 root root 5448 Aug 27 20:23 dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:23:46-cpu0-cmc0
-rw------- 1 root root 5448 Aug 27 20:23 dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:23:46-cpu1-cmc0
-rw------- 1 root root 456 Aug 27 20:23 dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:23:47-cpu0-cpe0

# cat dgodb03.lcred.org-2009-08-27-18:23:47-cpu0-cpe0
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Any idea?

[Steven Schweda]

I know nothing, but a Google search for an
error message like:
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
finds several suggestions.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Try rebuilding your rpm database with the rpmbuild --rebuild command. Search in google how to delete and rebuild your database.

[loco_vikide]

To rebuild corrupted rpm database:
# cd /var/lib/rpm
# rm --db.00*
# rpm -vv --rebuilddb

Cheers

[Tonatiuh]

# rpm --db.00*
--db.00*: unknown option

[loco_vikide]

rm not rpm
Typo on two dashes. They should be two underscores:
# rm __db.00*

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

This is the procedure:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb

SEP

[skt_skt]

i have done this sucessful

Make a backup of /var/lib/rpm in case you break something:
tar cvzf rpmdb-backup.tar.gz /var/lib/rpm

Remove the Berkeley databases that rpm uses:
rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*

Make rpm rebuild the databases from scratch (may take a short while):
rpm --rebuilddb

Now, check rpm to make sure everything is okay:
rpm -qa | sort

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Also, make sure the rpm is IA64.

SEP