| Summary: | Glint fails with new rpm-3.0.x | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Simon Hill <simon> |
| Component: | glint | Assignee: | Erik Troan <ewt> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | bobvm |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-09-19 18:50:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
*** Bug 4795 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** After upgrading to the latest rpm (3.0.2) from your Support list, glint does not work. Also, the X-Windows Package Management tool (which envokes glint) does not work. Executing glint from the command line results in the following messages: bad option 'macrofiles' at /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc:256 Glint Graphical Package Manager -- version 2.6.2 Copyright (C) 1998 - Red Hat Software This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License Traceback (innermost last): File "./glint.py", line 49, in ? installedPackageSet = InstalledPackageSet() File "./packageset.py", line 133, in __init__ self.db = RPMDatabase(prefix) File "./rpmdb.py", line 61, in __init__ self.OpenDatabase(Prefix) File "./rpmdb.py", line 26, in OpenDatabase self.reopen() File "./rpmdb.py", line 41, in reopen self.db = rpm.opendb() rpm.error: cannot open database in /var/lib/rpm I downloaded the rpm and rpm-devel RPMs from the errata list, and did a "rpm --rebuilddb". Problem persists. Glint has been deprecated and will probably disappear in following releases. Gnorpm as was shipped with 6.0 is a better and more modern choice for rpm package maintenance. |
After installing the new rpm-3.0.2-5.x, and rebuilding the rpm database with rpm --rebuilddb, glint was unable to read the new rpm database format. Traceback (innermost last): File "./glint.py", line 49, in ? installedPackageSet = InstalledPackageSet() File "./packageset.py", line 133, in __init__ self.db = RPMDatabase(prefix) File "./rpmdb.py", line 61, in __init__ self.OpenDatabase(Prefix) File "./rpmdb.py", line 26, in OpenDatabase self.reopen() File "./rpmdb.py", line 41, in reopen self.db = rpm.opendb() rpm.error: cannot open database in /var/lib/rpm