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Bug 21071

Summary: up2date fails with "rpm.error: error reading from database"
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: daniel.deimert
Component: up2dateAssignee: Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description daniel.deimert 2000-11-19 13:29:27 UTC
When running up2date-2.0.6-1 with the commandline "up2date -a -l",
it fails with the following error message


Removing packages with files marked to skip from list...
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 394, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 377, in main
    sys.exit(batchRun(onlyList, pkgNames, fullUpdate))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 139, in batchRun
    updated, skipped = up2date.getUpdatedPackageList(printit, percent)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.py", line 897, in
getUpdatedPackageList
    progressCallback)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.py", line 854, in
removeSkipFilesPackagesFromList
    if checkModified(h, f_i):
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.py", line 773, in checkModified
    installedHdr = installedHeader(hdr['name'])
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.py", line 162, in installedHeader
    for index in db.findbyname(pkgName):
rpm.error: error reading from database

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-11-28 20:10:48 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18994 ***