Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 86177
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.8 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030212 Description of problem: Rpm will no longer do anything as root user. [root@nitremb22 root]# rpm -q 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 The above error happens when quearying or trying to install. As a non-root user the queries will work. Try to trick it by using a sudo account but no luck. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.2-0.68 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Upgrade rpm to 4.2-0.68 2.Try to do a query or install as root 3.rpm -Uvh dia-0.91-1.i686.rpm Actual Results: 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 Expected Results: Package installs. Additional info: This is on a Phoebe 8.0.93 redhat-rpm-config-8.0.18-1 rpm-build-4.2-0.68 rpm-python-4.2-0.68 rpmdb-redhat-8.0.93-0.20030121 rpm-devel-4.2-0.68 rpm-4.2-0.68 glibc-2.3.1-38 kernel-2.4.20-2.24
Try rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* If that doesn't fix, then put in /etc/rpm/macros (create if necessary) %__dbi_cdb create private cdb mpool mp_mmapsize=16Mb mp_size=1Mb (Note: "private" is what's needed.) If "private" fixes, think seriously about upgrading to a NPTL aware kernel/glibc. Alternatively, downgrade to a version of rpm that is built w/o NPTL. If "private" doesn't fix, reopen this bug, please.
I have the same problem when running with rawhide kernel (2.4.20-20.1.2005.nptl) and it happens only if rpm is run as root, and works fine when run as regular user. I upgraded the redhat 9 system to all latest rawhide packages. Also running 'LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm ...' fixes this for root.