How do I resolve "db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove"?
 

Trying to install alsa drivers. At the prompt I'm entering:
$ rpm --rebuilddb alsa-driver-...-.src.rpm

and my good friend linux returns:
error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy

Hmm. I'm running Red Hat 9. Trying to get a SB 16 PCI soundcard to work.

Been attacking this for a while. Have read about a bug attached to this error, but I want to be sure. If I am the prey of a bug, I'd appreciate some specific info on what to do so that I can run "rpm --rebuilddb" in the future.

I am very green in all-things-Linux, so help would be BIG. Been banging the head against the wall on this one for quite a while--thought I could work around it. Yeah, right.

Bump.

My kernel is 20.4.20-8. I'm wondering if I should upgrade my kernel to 20.4.20-20.9. Worried that that might just introduce new problems.

Anybody know anything about this error in these circumstances at all?

It's a harmless albeit annoying bug. Ignore it.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/...g.cgi?id=83281

This command makes no sense at all.

Thanks, misc.

And maybe the command looks weird b/c I abbreviated the .src.rpm filename with an ellipsis. Everything else about it should be good, though--I got it directly from the doc that was telling me what to do, and if it were nonsensical I wouldn't have returned an error, right? Who knows.

I'll keep at it. Thanks again.

No. The command is pure nonsense. It is a mixture of rpmbuild --rebuild foo*.src.rpm and rpm --rebuilddb. :D
No. :) It just accepted the first argument and ignored the src.rpm filename.

Wow. That's some solid advice. Fault me for sticking to bad documentation--instead of going on a bug/kernel update hunt, I should've taken 2 minutes to question the command itself.

Used the rpmbuild and compiled some rpms right quick. I'm back on the path to sanity!

Thanks for the HUGE dope slap, misc.