On 08 April 2014 @00:34 zulu, Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:27:17 -0400 H wrote:
rpm --rebuilddb:
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
When I run that error message through google, this is the very first result:
http://sysadmingear.blogspot.ca/2008/08/how-to-fix-rpmdb-unable-to-join.html
In case that blog site goes down in the future and you found this list's archives in google, the recommended fix there is deleting any files locking the RPM database. e.g. # rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
Or, from user level $ sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* or $ su -c rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
Then use the rpm --rebuilddb command again to rebuild the database, which could have been corrupted during the same crash that left the (typically zero-byte) semaphore file[s] as detritus.