Bug 234111
| Summary: | Failed to open Add/Remove Software | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | roger benham <rogerbenham> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-08-09 19:48:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Failure to open an rpmdb is likely a manifestation of the FC6 kernel mmap problem. Upgrade your kernel and do rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* and you are likely ok. FWIW, rpm-4.4.8-0.4 and later automates detecting/correcting the fixup necessary because of the kernel mmap bug. UPSTREAM |
Description of problem: Component: Software Manager Summary: TB6b5e0e87 config.py:661:_getsysver:TypeError: rpmdb open failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 453, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 446, in main pm = PackageManager(options.config) File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 60, in __init__ GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False, config) 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 598, in readMainConfig yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 661, in _getsysver idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg) TypeError: rpmdb open failed Local variables in innermost frame: installroot: / ts: <rpmUtils.transaction.TransactionWrapper instance at 0x9056d2c> distroverpkg: redhat-release Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: