Bug 46809

Summary:	After upgrade 6.2 -> 7.0, RPM stopped working
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Greg <greg.b.redhat>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.0
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Greg 2001-06-30 22:23:12 UTC

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Description of problem:
RPM stopped working with the error "could not open packages index with
db1".  It was trying to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm according to strace,
which is the old rh6.2 filename.  I solved it by chainging
/etc/rpm/macros.db1 to contain "%_dbapi         3" where it had contained
"%_dbapi         1".

Upgrade was using a custom-spun RH7.0 CDROM with all the updates as of
today (30-June-2001), as far as I know.  Some installer files may not have
been updated, but all RPMS were as well as some installer files.

How reproducible:
Didn't try


Actual Results:  I would have to restore from backup and attempt to
re-upgrade the server in order to reproduce the problem.  I have no
intention to do that to a production server.  I do know that the problem
comes back if I change the "3" back to "1" in /etc/rpm/macros.db1.  Every
time. :)

Additional info:

rpm version rpm-4.0.2-7x.i386.rpm

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-07-11 18:19:19 UTC

Since it was a custom spun 7.0, there's pretty much no chance for me to
reproduce the problem.