redhat-config-packages problem + other
Graeme Nichols
gnichols at tpg.com.au
Mon Jul 12 05:11:56 UTC 2004
Hello Folks, I seem to be having a problem with the rpm database or
something because redhat-config-packages no longer runs and I cannot
figure out what may be wrong. Running it from the command line results
in the following:_
[graeme at barney graeme]$ redhat-config-packages
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 159, in ?
hdlist.mergeRpmDb()
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/hdrlist.py", line 32, in
mergeRpmDb
db = rpm.opendb(0, instPath)
rpm404.error
This output seems to me to indicate a python/gnome problem. My
experience with python, gnome, pygtk etc. has taught me that the python,
gnome, pygtk etc. is a complete dogs breakfast with every upgrade of the
different libraries/packages scattering the components around various
different locations to the previous version creating all sorts of
problems similar to the error above. The developers don't appear to have
heard of backward compatibility or even consistency.
I run gramps and tried to upgrade a particular library/package to take
advantage of a plug-in. The library/package rpm installed with no
warnings or dependency problems but broke python and gramps because the
updated library/package installed all it's modules in a different
location to where python and gramps were expecting to find them. I had
to backtrack to fix it all. No big deal but a RPITB.
I also run Gnucash which has a perl plug-in for getting stock quotes.
When I upgraded Gnucash a few weeks ago and tried to get stock quotes I
had to upgrade a whole smash of stuff related to the Finance::Quote perl
module. I don't believe this has caused my problem, but, hey, who knows?
But back to the problem... I rebuilt the rpm database twice and both
times it went to completion without errors. On RH8 I don't have any
'__db.0n' files in /var/lib/rpm, only the following:-
[graeme at barney graeme]$ ls -la /var/lib/rpm
total 83184
drwxr-xr-x 2 rpm rpm 4096 Jul 12 14:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Jul 12 12:11 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10563584 Jun 12 15:28 Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Jun 12 15:26 Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 1433600 Jun 12 15:28 Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10575872 Jun 12 15:28 Filemd5s
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 28672 Jun 12 15:57 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 20480 Jun 12 15:57 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 81920 Jun 12 15:57 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 40337408 Jun 12 15:57 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 331776 Jun 12 15:57 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 98304 Jun 12 15:57 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Jul 12 11:55 Pubkeys
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Jun 12 15:57 Pubkeys.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 405504 Jun 12 15:28 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 204800 Jun 12 15:28 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25080710 Jul 12 11:54 rpm_backup.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 167936 Jun 12 15:28 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 86016 Jun 12 15:28 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Jun 12 15:28 Triggername
I am no programmer but from the error message I take it the problem
occurs in the python module hdrlist.py which calls the function
mergeRpmDb which then fails on the first assignment (db = rpm.opendb(0,
instPath))
>From now on I am lost. Has anyone any idea what may have become
corrupted? Is there a compatibility problem in the various python etc
libraries/packages caused by one or more being upgraded independently?
(This would have to have happened because of some automated upgrade as I
haven't done any upgrades myself)
For what its worth the following is the code in hdrlist.py down to line
32 where the error occurs:-
#
# hdrlist.py - functions for dealing with header lists
#
# Based on code originally from anaconda's comps.py
#
# Copyright 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
#
import os, sys
import rpm404 as rpm
import method
from comps import Package
if os.environ.has_key("RCPUPGRADE") and os.environ["RCPUPGRADE"] == "1":
ALLOWUPGRADE = 1
else:
ALLOWUPGRADE = 0
class HeaderList(dict):
def selected(self):
l = []
keys = self.keys()
keys.sort()
for name in keys:
if self[name].isSelected():
l.append(self[name])
return l
def mergeRpmDb(self, instPath = "/"):
installedmethod = method.InstalledPackageMethod()
db = rpm.opendb(0, instPath)
i = db.firstkey()
while i is not None:
Hoping someone can help.
--
Kind regards,
Graeme Nichols
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