Getting DB_RUNRECOVERY error from yum/rpm, what can you do to fix it? The error messages look something like this: $ sudo yum install google-chrome-stable error: rpmdb: Thread/process 9662/3077695168 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db4 – (-30974) […]
Month: September 2015
A sample .emacs file
This is my current .emacs file. As you can see it’s got lots of goodies – indentation styles when editing code, jumping between parentheses/if/endif keywords, special key-mappings, custom search commands and much more 🙂
The linux ‘find’ command by example
find ~ -type f -name “.*” FIND the hidden files in your home directory (~) find . -name *~ -type f -delete Delete all files ending in ~ find . -name *.svn -type d -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -rf Delete all .svn files under current dir find . -name *.c -perm /u+x -type f […]