yum+--rebuilddb= no yum

[j kallo]

Powerbook Ti 1g, YDL 3.0.1, 2.4.22-2f 

Hello all,

In my quest to get MOL working, I foolishly did an
"rpm --rebuilddb", and since then any yum command
fails with  

****
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 101, in main
  File "yummain.py", line 58, in parseCmdArgs
  File "config.py", line 120, in __init__
  File "config.py", line 169, in _getsysver
  File "clientStuff.py", line 164, in openrpmdb
NameError: global name 'RpmError' is not defined
****

I have found two instances of this exact problem with
the same cause in the archives, and in both cases the
correspondence stopped w/o a solution. I have tried
using rpm -e to uninstall and reinstall yum, and I've
installed the newest version of of Yum that will work
with my stock python: 1.0.3-1. None of this
works--still get the same error. It looks like yum no
longer understand the syntax of my rpmdb.

Anyone have a suggestion? 

Thanks,
Joe

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Joseph S. Kallo, Ph.D.
Technology Coordinator
Curriculum & Instruction
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
quietglow at mac.com
http://homepage.mac.com/quietglow/


		
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