[clue-tech] RPM Error

[Mike Staver]

Yikes, thanks for the info Michael.  It's kinda sad to see RH having 
this large a bug in EL3.

Michael Robbert wrote:
> I've seen stuff like that plenty of times. That is why I'm glad to be 
> running Debian now. It looks like this is a known bug in RH Enterprise 3 
> that is probably also in WBL 3. Here is a page with the work around:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/31/2005/01/2/273856
> 
> I don't know what is at the root of the problem, but this isn't the 
> first time this has happened. I was having with RH9 I believe and that 
> time I think that there was a locking issue that allowed the database to 
> become corrupt in certain situations.
> 
> Good Luck with it!
> 
> Mike Robbert
> 
> Mike Staver wrote:
> 
>> Anybody seen this before with RPM?
>>
>> [root at mail staver]# rpm -qa
>> 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
>> no packages
>>
>> I'm using Whitebox Linux 3 was going to try upgrading to Cent OS 4 
>> here - but until I get this solved, I don't think it would work 
>> because Cent OS would need to know what RPMs I have installed first.
> 
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