Am 10.05.2012 13:29, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia:
> Interrupting an RPM or yum operation in mid-stream can cause interesting
> problems. as can disk problems or overflowing the partition that has
> /var/lib/rpm on it in mid-deployment.
>
> Make sure no one is doing yum or rpm operations, and consider these steps:
>  
>      rpm --rebuilddb # to rebuild the messed up database

Unfortunately this is failing.

# rpm -vv --rebuilddb
D: rebuilding database /var/lib/rpm into /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.16419
D: creating directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.16419
D: opening old database with dbapi 3
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily
unavailable (11)
D: removing directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.16419
D: May free Score board((nil))

Cheers,
Frank