yum fails after rpm --rebuilddb is run

[Dan Burcaw]

Do you have the newer version of yum installed as well?


On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 21:45, Paul Rockwell wrote:
> I (foolishly) was playing around with rpm on YDL 3.0, and issued a
> rpm --rebuilddb. Since doing that, yum now fails as follows:
> 
> [root@linuxppc rpm]# yum update
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
> rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "yummain.py", line 145, in main
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 146, in rpmdbNevralLoad
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 139, in openrpmdb
> NameError: global name 'RpmError' is not defined
> 
> I've got rpm-4.1.1-1.8xa installed. It looks like rpm --rebuilddb now
> creates rpm databases in a format that yum doesn't understand. A 'file'
> of the rpm databases says that they are now Berkeley DB: hash version 8.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas how to get yum working again?
> 
> - Paul E. Rockwell
> 
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