Strange update error message and system will not update
Alexander Dalloz
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Mon Sep 5 22:51:22 UTC 2005
Am Mo, den 05.09.2005 schrieb Charles Layno um 18:54:
> I have 3 FC2 machines and recently did an apt-get update on them. All seemed
> to go well. Today I tried to do another update and I now get the following
> update message on all three machines. One is a Dell server, and the other two
> are workstations.
>
> rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version
> error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database
> environment version mismatch
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> E: could not open RPM database
>
> This looks really bad. Is it as bad as it looks and is there a way to recover
> from this without having to reinstall the whole system?
>
> Charles Layno
> Greensboro, NC
Did you set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL? I remember to have seen reports by people
setting this. Else see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158666
Alexander
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