[CentOS] Yum/rpm error (rpmdb versioning issue?)

Chris Mauritz

chrism at imntv.com
Wed Jul 20 10:39:05 UTC 2005


Has anyone seen this before?

[root at shelob rpm]# yum update
rpmdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version
error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 163, in main
    (log, errorlog, filelog, conf, cmds) = parseCmdArgs(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 75, in parseCmdArgs
    conf=yumconf(configfile=yumconffile)
  File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 155, in __init__
    self.yumvar['releasever'] = self._getsysver()
  File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 285, in _getsysver
    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', self.distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed

Trying to rebuild the rpm database results in a similar error.  Any 
suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this is a remote system that 
isn't easy for me to get physical access to.  8-(

Cheers,

Chris




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