Bug 35938

Summary:	up2date -l returns
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joe Klemmer <klemmerj>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	srevivo
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Description Joe Klemmer 2001-04-14 21:27:57 UTC

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The -l option stopped working when I upgraded to up2date v2.5.2 .  
The exact error message looks like this:

# up2date -l
There was a fatal RPM error.  The message was:
Couldn't determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. su -
2. up2date -l
3. "Error occurs"
	

Actual Results:  # up2date -l
There was a fatal RPM error.  The message was:
Couldn't determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running.

Expected Results:  # up2date -l

Retrieving list of all available packages...

Removing installed packages from list of updates...
100.0%
Removing packages marked to skip from list...
100.0%
Getting headers for available packages...
100.0%
Removing packages with files marked to skip from list...
100.0%

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2001-04-16 11:47:50 UTC

The change from rpm-3.0.x to rpm-4.0.2 requires that the rpm database be
rebuilt.  This is why you are getting this error.  So, as root, run the
following:  'rpm --rebuilddb'

Once that has completed, you should be able to run up2date again without problems.