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Created attachment 315174 [details] debug file - RPM error I'm unable to install any RPM file to new release of RHEL 5U2 server. The debug file is below also attached . kindly give the solution =============================================== Component: pirut Summary: TBbc99d12e config.py:752:_getsysver:TypeError: rpmdb open failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 490, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 483, in main pm = PackageManager(options.config, options.onlyrepo) File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 67, in __init__ GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False, config) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 137, in __init__ plugin_types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 118, in doConfigSetup errorlevel=errorlevel) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 164, in _getConfig self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 685, in readMainConfig yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 752, in _getsysver idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg) TypeError: rpmdb open failed Local variables in innermost frame: installroot: / ts: <rpmUtils.transaction.TransactionWrapper instance at 0x9079eac> distroverpkg: redhat-release ==============================================================
*** Bug 461079 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
yum/pirut should handle the case of rpmdb open failing more gracefully than dumping a traceback, but... as a quick googling for "TypeError: rpmdb open failed" would have told you, the following will likely to fix the issue: # rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* # rpm --rebuilddb If not, feel free to reopen.