Bug 221044

Summary: Rpmdb open failed
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adrian Blakey <adrian>
Component: pirutAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Adrian Blakey 2006-12-31 02:01:01 UTC
Description of problem:
Component: Software Updater
Summary: TBc3704fb6 config.py:656:_getsysver:TypeError: rpmdb open failed

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 659, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 652, in main
    pup = PackageUpdater()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 90, in __init__
    GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 124, in __init__
    plugin_types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 125, in
doConfigSetup
    self.conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 597, in readMainConfig
    yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot,
startupconf.distroverpkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 656, in _getsysver
    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed

Local variables in innermost frame:
installroot: /
ts: <rpmUtils.transaction.TransactionWrapper instance at 0x85516ac>
distroverpkg: redhat-release


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How reproducible:

Ran the updater.

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Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-01-03 18:05:11 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212504 ***