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Bug 51463

Summary:	Can't execute rpm queiries as root
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Sean Dilda <agrajag>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Sean Dilda 2001-08-10 17:25:17 UTC

As a normal user, I can do:


[agrajag@loiosh agrajag]$ rpm -qf /bin/bash
bash-2.05-8
[agrajag@loiosh agrajag]$

However, as root I get:

[root@loiosh agrajag]# rpm -qf /bin/bash
rpmdb: Program version 3.3.11 doesn't match environment version 3.3.4
error: db3 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
[root@loiosh agrajag]# 


I get the same error when I try any rpm query command as root, such as a
-qa, or a normal '-q packagename'

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-10 17:31:43 UTC

Try
	rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

Reopen this bug if that doesn't work.

Comment 2 Sean Dilda 2001-08-10 20:53:17 UTC

That *mostly* works..   When I run 'rpm -qa' as root, it gets to:

[root@loiosh agrajag]# rpm -qa
psgml-1.2.1-13
libgnomeprint11-0.25-9
trn-3.6-28
<snip>
gnumeric-0.67-4
initscripts-6.11-1
cvs-1.11.1p1-3
kudzu-devel-0.99.11-1

Then it just hangs until I hit ^C.   When I run rpm -qa as a normal user, it
seems to print all the rpms and exit cleanly.

Also:
[root@loiosh agrajag]# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.0.3-0.84
[root@loiosh agrajag]#

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-11 01:40:45 UTC

The next step is
	rpm --rebuilddb

Comment 4 Sean Dilda 2001-08-11 02:59:32 UTC

I ran rpm --rebuilddb as root, and it just sat there.. no heavy disk access or
anything...  at the suggestion of Jeremy Katz, I straced it, found it was just
doing selects, then stopped the rpm process and did the rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 *again*.  Now everything seems to be working fine as far as I can tell.. 
however I do think it is a bug that I even had to remove these files once.

Comment 5 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-11 15:52:10 UTC

Fixed in rtpm-4.0.3-0.88.