{"id":64,"date":"2005-06-18T20:10:38","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T03:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2005-06-18T20:10:38","modified_gmt":"2005-06-19T03:10:38","slug":"oh-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/18\/oh-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"oh linux!"},"content":{"rendered":"

… so I am installing some ancient linux (redhat 9) on some similar ancient hardware (don’t ask).<\/p>\n

All goes well. Suddenly the install hangs. I follow the instructions to get rid of __db.* in \/var\/lib\/rpm and do a rpm –rebuilddb only to get an error message:<\/p>\n


\nerror: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Too me that sounds like something is broken. Tried it again, and it behaved the very same way. Since nothing is running on the machine I decided to reboot. Still the same error. Finally, I google for it, and find that this is ‘harmless’. “harmless” ? OK, why dosen’t the error message say so then?? This is just plain stupid. It would have taken the original coder 3 minutes to give people a little hint that this error is well, not an error. That it is ‘harmless’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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