yum failure after rpm --rebuilddb

Joel Daynes yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Apr 18 20:04:01 2004


Hello-
	Recently I rebuilt the rpm database using rpm --rebuilddb, and ever 
since, when I try to do anything with yum, I get errors like this:

[root@edge root]# yum install php
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

Any thoughts on how to get yum back in working order?

Thanks-
Joel
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Joel Daynes
Web Developer
Mercury MediaWorks Digital Solutions
http://www.mercurymediaworks.com
jdaynes@mmwds.com