[rhn-users] up2date problems with EL 3.0

[Jay Biddle]

How do I determine what release of Red Hat I am running ?

Thanks

Daniel Wittenberg wrote:

>Try:
>rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
>rpm --rebuilddb
>up2date -l
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>Dan
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>On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:38 -0800, George Goffe wrote:
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>>Howdy, 
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>>I'm having troubles with up2date and I don't know what else. 
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>>I started getting ssl errors and followed that path for a while by
>>updating the certificate and then upgrading up2date. Now I'm seeing
>>other errors and am prety well lost at this point. Here's what I'm
>>seeing (below). Does anyone have any ideas as to how to proceed? 
>>
>>Regards and thanks, 
>>
>>George... 
>>
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>>[root at temecula tmp]# 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 
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>>[root at temecula tmp]# rpm -qa db4 
>>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 
>>no packages 
>>
>>[root at temecula tmp]# rpm --version 
>>RPM version 4.2.3
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