[WBEL-users] yum troubles
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Feb 28 20:47:44 CST 2005
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 16:45 -0800, Mickael Maddison wrote:
> Hello whitebox-users,
>
> what would cause this?
>
> [root at loon root]# yum check-update
> rpmdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version
> error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
> File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 163, in main
> (log, errorlog, filelog, conf, cmds) = parseCmdArgs(args)
> File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 75, in parseCmdArgs
> conf=yumconf(configfile=yumconffile)
> File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 155, in __init__
> self.yumvar['releasever'] = self._getsysver()
> File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 285, in _getsysver
> idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', self.distroverpkg)
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
>
> #rpm --rebuilddb
> rpmdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version
> error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
> error: cannot open Packages index
----
ps aux|grep rpm
#kill all open rpm processes first
rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb
Craig
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