[WBEL-users] yum broken after upgrade

[Raimo Koski]

donavan nelson wrote:
> Luke Scharf wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 12:19, Milan Keršláger wrote:
>>
>>> rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
>>
>>
>>
>> Does that remove the RPM database, the indexes, or something else?
>>
>> I'd advise against anyone removing their RPM database.  The machine is
>> always a mess afterward.
> 
> 
> this is an upstream problem and the reason CentOS held back the most 
> recent rpm release from the CentOS 3.4 (RHEL 3 U4) quarterly respin.

Lineox did the same, but it can be apparently fixed by updating glibc 
before building rpm. If built with old glibc, the rpm program is broken 
and rm /var/lib/rpm/__* doesn't help. Besides downgrading rpm by hand, 
adding to /etc/rpm/macros the line:
%__dbi_cdb  create cdb private mpool mp_mmapsize=16Mb mp_size=1Mb
will resurrect rpm functionality.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82764
describes a similar case.

This is quite weird problem and perhaps rpm should have the correct 
glibc as build and installation requirement because this seems to pop up 
again intermittently.

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