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Description of problem:
same rh9 on a second machine generates this same error message when doing a "rpm
--rebuilddb"
"db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.2-0.69

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. #rpm --rebuilddb
2. wait a minute or so 
3. look! error message! "db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove  dbenv->remove: Device
or resource busy"

    

Actual Results:  got the error message, not sure if __db.* 's got updated.


Expected Results:  no error message would be good 

Additional info:

SMALL part fo strace:

close(3)                                = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", O_RDWR|O_DIRECT|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
mmap2(NULL, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40017000
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x40017000, 16384)               = 0
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
write(2, "error: ", 7error: )                  = 7
write(2, "db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove"..., 58db4 error(16) from
dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy
) = 58
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [33], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [33], NULL, 8) = 0
close(21)                               = 0
open("/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.8574/Pubkeys", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
close(3)                                = 0
close(18)                               = 0
close(17)                               = 0
close(16)                               = 0
close(15)                               = 0