Bug 485142
| Summary: | Yum cannot open RPM database | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Robin Green <greenrd> |
| Component: | yum | Assignee: | Seth Vidal <skvidal> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | ffesti, james.antill, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-02-12 08:00:17 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Just "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*" to kick the old environment out to fix it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 455836 *** |
Description of problem: yum can't start because it can't open the rpm database Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.21-8.fc11.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. sudo yum shell Actual results: Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit rpmdb: Program version 4.7 doesn't match environment version 4.5 error: db4 error(-30971) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30971) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 301, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 155, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 188, in getOptionsConfig self.conf File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 630, in <lambda> conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(), File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 227, in _getConfig self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 772, in readMainConfig yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 842, in _getsysver idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg) TypeError: rpmdb open failed Additional information: rpm -q still works rpm-4.6.0-2.fc11.i386 rpm-python-4.6.0-2.fc11.i386 glibc-2.9.90-3.i686 Linux 2.6.29-0.96.rc3.git12.fc11.i586