<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi all, I have an issue on 6.4 where doing a "yum install" into a rootdir utilizing RHEL 5 packages on a RHEL 6.4 box results in the following error: <tt> Installing : compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4.x86_64 713/714</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt> Installing : compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386 714/714</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Traceback (most recent call last):</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module></tt><tt> </tt><tt> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 285, in user_main</tt><tt> </tt><tt> errcode = main(args)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 219, in main</tt><tt> </tt><tt> return_code = base.doTransaction()</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 586, in doTransaction</tt><tt> </tt><tt> resultobject = self.runTransaction(cb=cb)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1588, in runTransaction</tt><tt> </tt><tt> self.rpmdb.dropCachedDataPostTransaction(list(self.tsInfo))</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 343, in dropCachedDataPostTransaction</tt><tt> </tt><tt> pkg = self.searchNevra(n, e, v, r, a)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 1197, in searchNevra</tt><tt> </tt><tt> return self._search(name, epoch, ver, rel, arch)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 1271, in _search</tt><tt> </tt><tt> mi = ts.dbMatch('name', name)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> _rpm.error: rpmdb open failed</tt><tt> </tt><tt> yum invocation failed</tt> Doing the exact same command on a RHEL 6.3 box works fine. This only happens after I upgrade the server to 6.4. I've tried tracking down the changes in yum between 6.3 (3.2.29-30) and 6.4 (3.2.29-40) and do not see any changes that seem like they would result in this behavior. I am not sure what the above error means, or where to begin on resolving this problem. Thoughts? Thanks for the help! </body> </html>