Bug 87681
| Summary: | rpm and up2date not working | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Eric Gibson <ericgibson> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | lists |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-04-19 19:10:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Does rpm from the command line work? Try
rpm -qa
and/or
rpm --rebuilddb -vv
If that doesn't produce output, then probably
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
is the fix (i.e. removing stale locks).
Does the above "work"? (up2date problem next)
The command line DOES work. And I can rebuild the database, expect the list is only partial (rpms loaded/ reloaded since this problem first occured). I have run (and rerun) all of the "fixes" you gave me and the problem does not totally clear. Removing the stale locks do nothing and when I rebuild the database, the locks reoccur __db.001, __db.002, and __db.003. The GUI Package manager still fails to load is list of packages. It crashes and gives me and "Unknown Error" mssg. up2date still not functioning in any capacity. Yes, the locks are in the files, not the files themselves. Good, rpm works from the CLI. Next step is to verify packages involved. Try rpm -V rpm up2date python glibc to insure that the packages are installed correctly. (next will be to verify up2date functionality) glibc is not showing up as present (even though I KNOW it's there), sent I have not reloaded the rpm since the problem started. I will reload that rpm and update you to see if the problem is corrected. I am seeing this problem also. (The only difference for me is that I'm using 7.3)
rpm claims some packages exist, and others don't (even though they are clearly
there.) For example,
[matt@lightnin rpm]$ rpm -q redhat-release
redhat-release-7.3-1
[matt@lightnin rpm]$ rpm -q rpm
package rpm is not installed
[matt@lightnin rpm]$ rpm -q kernel
package kernel is not installed
Obviously, rpm is installed. Most packages seem to have disappeared, according
to rpm. rpm --rebuilddb makes no difference. Running up2date on the command line
gives the same error reported above ("Couldn't determine what version of rpm you
are running.")
I've tried the tips above. rpm -qa works, but the listing is very incomplete.
There's no obvious reason why some packages are reported as installed, and
others aren't. Verifying python fails, but I presume that's because rpm reckons
glibc isn't installed (obviously, it is).
[matt@lightnin rpm]$ rpm -V rpm up2date python glibc
package rpm is not installed
package up2date is not installed
Unsatisfied dependencies for python-1.5.2-43.73: /bin/sh , libcrypto.so.2 ,
libcrypt.so.1 , libcrypt.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) , libc.so.6 , libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
, libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) , libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.2) , libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) ,
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) , libdl.so.2 , libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) ,
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) , libgmp.so.3 , libm.so.6 , libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) ,
libnsl.so.1 , libnsl.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) , libpthread.so.0 ,
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) , libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) , libssl.so.2 , libz.so.1
package glibc is not installed
I've done a pretty comprehensive Google search and turned up a few people having
this problem, but no solutions. At this stage I'm tempted to deinstall and
reinstall rpm, but I'd rather locate the problem.
I had similar error "Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running" (linked to rpm -V redhat-release coming up null). moved /var/lib/rpm/__* to /old rpm --rebuilddb db_verify Packages got the error specified here: http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ followed those instructions, and got it to work. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: Package Management GUI for RPM fails to load/update any rpm. More Specifically, up2date will not function at all to update from RHN. I get the following error: root@rachel [/var/lib/rpm]# up2date Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 20, in ? from up2date_client import rpcServer File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 10, in ? import up2dateAuth File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 6, in ? import rpmSource File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 11, in ? import up2dateUtils File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 15, in ? import rpmUtils File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 261, in ? rpm_version = getRpmVersion() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 257, in getRpmVersion raise up2dateErrors.RpmError("Couldn't determine what version of rpm you are running.\nIf you get this error, try running \n\n\t\trpm --rebuilddb\n\n") up2date_client.up2dateErrors.RpmError: RPM error. The message was: Couldn't determine what version of rpm you are running. If you get this error, try running rpm --rebuilddb Several attempts to repair rpm db has not cleared the problem. System Update still fails to run. I've even reload rpm and up2date with 0 results. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm 4.1-1.06, up2date-3.0.7-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Via Gui, click on Red Hat Network (System Update) Icon. 2.Screen looks to load for a split second, then closes without error mssg. OR Via terminal 3.key in up2date with above error. Actual Results: Generated the above error mssg. Expected Results: up2date should have lauched and attempted to search for updates Additional info: The utility used to work fine. It doesn't anymore and I am unaware of what caused the problem with up2date or rpm or whatever the problem is in. RPM will work from a terminal windows and but will not work from GUI and RPM database is NOT accurate as to what packages or loaded on the system.