rpm problem

can't open the Package index

[ppg]

I'm having a spot of bother getting rpm to do anything on RH 7.2. I'm getting a 'resource temporarily unavailable' error when db3 tries to open the /var/lib/rpm/Packages rpm index.

Theres 107 Mb free on Var, I'm logged in as root and fuser shows no processes currently accessing that file.

Anyone come accross this before?

thanks

[David]

Not sure but you should look at..

man rpm

And maybe this will solve it

rpm -rebuilddb

[ppg]

David,

sorry for the delay replying, I have been trying a few things to get it up and running again.

None of them worked, (even suggestions from the redhat rpm mailing list, helpful as they were) however rpm -rebuilddb did the job.

If you're ever in south London, I owe you a beer or several!

thanks a lot :-)