From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030807 Description of problem: The following error is observed if the latest (sept 5th) 2.6.0-0.test4.1.33 kernels are installed on RH9 with the latest errata. [root@omkhar root]# 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 However, this works fine under 2.4.20-20.9 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.0-0.test4.1.33 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See above Actual Results: See Above Expected Results: See above Additional info:
Apparently this can be resolved with the latest RPM from here : ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.2.x Perhaps this can be added as a dependancy?
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