[WBEL-users] yum broken after upgrade

[Johnny Hughes]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:25 +0200, Raimo Koski wrote:
> 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.

This is the issue we are having at CentOS:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143532

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