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

[Corné Beerse]

Norman Elton wrote:
> Here's what I had to do (by hand) to all of our servers...
> 
> rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
> rpm --rebuilddb

Sounds familiar. I've done that on RH9 and on RHEL3. Deep investigation showed 
there is an update of both `up2date` and `rpm` that is outside the up2date 
cyclus. Check the redhat websites to see if that holds true for your version and 
variant. Then carefully update both packages.

Roumors are this is due to some type of database, used with rpm that is in a bad 
version.

CBee


> 
> Frustrating, but necessary...
> 
> Norman
> 
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> Norman Elton
> Information Technology - Network Engineering
> College of William & Mary
> 757-221-7790
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> 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!
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr. Günter Schmidt          E-Mail: guenter.schmidt at bruker.de
>> NMR Software Department     Tel: +49 721 5161 443
>> Bruker BioSpin GmbH         Fax: +49 721 5161 480
>>
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