[WBEL-users] What's the wrong?

[Nick Bright]

Yes, that is the correct solution. For the sake of the mailing list,
I'll mention *why* this was a problem for you (I've had this problem
as well): the internal DB file format of RPM changed with an RPM
version upgrade. So, the __db files were the wrong format, and thus
caused an RPM error.

In general deleting the __db* files will do the trick, but in some
cases that isn't the only thing effected:

One server I run with WBEL3 has SW-Soft's Plesk 7.0.4 product for web
hosting management, which interacts with RPM directly. This software
could /not/ handle the newer version of RPM, so I had to roll it back
to the older version of RPM and put it in my skiplist in up2date.

- Nick Bright
  Terraworld, Inc
On 5/26/05, Pablo Silva <psilvao at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear People:
> 
>     Thanks for your replys, the solution was remove
> all the files such __db* files and run rpm
> --rebuilddb.
> 
>     -Pablo
> 
> --- David Eckelkamp <deckelkamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have seen this same problem on a couple of the
> > machines on which I run
> > WBEL3. The first time was on my personal
> > workstation. In all cases, the
> > problem "went away" after a reboot. I have not tried
> > to find the root cause
> > of the problem. While in this state, some RPM
> > commands worked OK, but I
> > believe most failed. This problem hasn't occurred on
> > all servers running
> > WBEL3, so I'm not even sure how it gets into the
> > state.
> >
> > I suspect that if you reboot the machine, the
> > problem will stop occurring.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> > DavidE
> >
> > On 5/24/05, Pablo Silva <psilvao at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear People:
> > >
> > > I was updating my Whitebox Linux Server, and
> > > found this error message:
> > >
> > > [root at sandman root]# env LANG=C yum 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
> > >
> > >
> > > I only update severals days ago, all my packages
> > by
> > > using yum update command, and now I see this error
> > > why?
> > >
> > > How can I do?
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > > -Pablo
> > >
> > >
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