Hi folks,

Did anyone of you see something like this before:

> ]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: kernel-module
> 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
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>     yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main
>     errcode = main(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main
>     base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig
>     self.conf
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 665, in <lambda>
>     conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 240, in _getConfig
>     self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 804, in readMainConfig
>     yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 877, in _getsysver
>     idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed

I already found out, that it seems that the pm-database is broken by
$reason. Unfortunately I cannot say, what the reasons are nor when it
did happen. However, also access rpm directly is ending up in an error
like this (besides the Python backtrace).

cheers,
Frank