I made a clean installation of http://www.gpsdrive.de/debian/pool/lenny/gpsdrive_2.10svn2313_amd64.deb.
The last step of mapnik-osm-updater.sh --all-planet-geofabrik=europe/germany fails with this error message:
--------- Create GpsDrive POI-Database
gpsdrive-update-osm-poi-db v0.1
+ Initializing Database access
+ Creating osm database file: /usr/share/gpsdrive/osm.db
Error while opening /usr/share/gpsdrive/osm.db: unable to open database file
!!!!!!! ERROR: cannot create POI Database
If I run this command afterwards:
bunzip2 -c /home/osm/osm/planet/germany.osm.bz2 | gpsdrive-update-osm-poi-db -w -o /usr/share/gpsdrive/osm.db -f /usr/share/gpsdrive/geoinfo.db STDIN
it run's fine.
Tested with maps from danemark too, so it's not a problem of the german maps.