[rhn-users] rpm not functional after yesterdays up2date to RHEL3-U4

[Norman Elton]

Here's what I had to do (by hand) to all of our servers...

rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb

Frustrating, but necessary...

Norman

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Norman Elton
Information Technology - Network Engineering
College of William & Mary
757-221-7790


On Dec 23, 2004, at 3:03 AM, Dr. Guenter Schmidt wrote:

> Since yesterdays up2date the 'rpm' command does not work anymore.
> I did:
>
> admin at viola(54)# up2date
> New Up2date available
> Restarting up2date
> admin at viola(55)# up2date
> 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/sbin/up2date", line 1174, in ?
>     sys.exit(main() or 0)
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 656, in main
>     ret = sanityChecks(fromDaemon, hasGui)
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 288, in sanityChecks
>     if cfg["useGPG"] and gpgUtils.checkGPGInstallation() == 2:
>   File "gpgUtils.py", line 31, in checkGPGInstallation
>   File "gpgUtils.py", line 75, in findKey
>   File "rpmUtils.py", line 102, in installedHeadersNameVersion
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
>
>
> There had been an error message in the graphical display, bu I cant 
> remember it.
> I tried a
>
> admin at viola(64)# rpm --rebuilddb
> rpmdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version
> error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
> error: cannot open Packages index
>
> But that didnt work either.
> Any idea what to do now?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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