yum.conf and sources

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 06:56, Søren Neigaard wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:27, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > up2date has a different configuration file than yum. Try "yum
> > check-update" to check for updates, and "yum update" to actually do the
> > update.
> 
> Oh maybe the problem is a very different animal, here is what i get if i
> run "yum check-update":
> 
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
> run database recovery
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30978)
> 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
> 
> What can I do about this? Is there a database recovery tool I can use?

That looks like an RPM database problem. Does "rpm -qa" give you a list
of installed RPMs?

Which version of yum are you using ("yum --version"), and which version
of Fedora Linux are you using?

The database can be rebuilt using "rpm --rebuilddb"
If that doesn't help, you may need to "rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00[123]" and
try "rpm --rebuilddb" again.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>