From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i586) 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
Since it was a custom spun 7.0, there's pretty much no chance for me to reproduce the problem.