Re: _rpm.error: rpmdb open failed

Russell Jones <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:46:31 -0500



    Here you go:

    
    /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum -y -c /tmp/genimage.30802.yum.conf
    --installroot=/install/netboot/centos5.4/x86_64/rootimg/
    --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=centos5.4-x86_64-0 install bc mysql
    SysVinit control-center gnome-applets gnome-panel gnome-session
    gnome-terminal metacity nautilus yelp expect bitmap-fonts
    desktop-backgrounds-basic xorg-x11-drivers xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
    xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi
    xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
    xorg-x11-fonts-misc xorg-x11-fonts-truetype xorg-x11-server-Xorg
    xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xfs xorg-x11-xinit authconfig-gtk
    bitstream-vera-fonts dejavu-lgc-fonts firstboot gdm glx-utils
    krb5-auth-dialog openssh-askpass pirut pup rhgb rhn-setup-gnome
    system-config-date system-config-display system-config-network
    system-config-printer-gui system-config-services
    system-config-soundcard system-config-users vnc-server wdaemon
    xorg-x11-apps xorg-x11-twm xterm nss_ldap glx-utils dbus-x11 acl
    acpid amtu aspell at attr authconfig autoconf automake14 automake15
    automake16 automake17 automake byacc ccid conman crash cscope ctags
    diffstat dos2unix doxygen dump ed fbset findutils finger fipscheck
    flex gettext glib gnupg hdparm imake indent kbd libdmx libevent
    libhugetlbfs libpfm libtool libXfont libXi libXpm libXau libXtst
    libXres libXaw libXrender libXft libXext libXmu libXi libXxf86vm
    libXv libXScrnSaver libXfontcache libXt libXp libXres libXfontcache
    libXft libXdmcp libXau libXrender libXrandr libXxf86misc libXfixes
    libXevie libX11 libXfixes libXrandr libXxf86vm libXdmcp libXt
    libXinerama libXcursor libXTrap libXpm libXext libXcursor libXTrap
    libX11 libXp libXxf86dga libXmu libXinerama lsof mcelog mdadm mgetty
    mkbootdisk mlocate mtools mtr nc neon nscd oddjob pax pfmon pinfo
    pirut pstack pycairo pygtk2 pyorbit pyparted pyspi quota rdist
    readahead rhgb rhpl rhpxl rmt rootfiles screen setarch setools
    setserial setuptool sos sox specspo splint sudo swig symlinks
    syslinux talk tmpwatch tree unix2dos valgrind vconfig vte wdaemon
    words xdelta xmlsec1 xsri xulrunner yelp zip aspell-en
    authconfig-gtk bitmap-fonts bitstream-vera-fonts ifd-egate
    oddjob-libs pcsc-lite pkinit-nss pygtk2-libglade rng-utils
    zisofs-tools nspr unixODBC gnome-utils gnome-session gftp
    mesa-libGLU blas lapack rcs flex texinfo glibc-devel boost
    boost-devel bison curl postgresql-libs squashfs-tools tclx
    tclx-devel apr apr-devel make ksh net-snmp-utils sendmail bash
    nfs-utils stunnel dhclient kernel openssh-server openssh-clients
    busybox-anaconda wget OpenIPMI OpenIPMI-libs OpenIPMI-devel
    OpenIPMI-perl OpenIPMI-python OpenIPMI-tools anacron binutils
    bind-utils compat-db compat-gcc-34 compat-gcc-34-c++
    compat-gcc-34-g77 compat-glibc compat-glibc-headers
    compat-libcom_err compat-libf2c-34 compat-libgcc-296
    compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 compat-openldap
    compat-readline43 compat-slang coreutils file findutils gawk nano
    nmap ntp openmpi openmpi-devel perl psacct psmisc psutils readline
    readline-devel rcs rpm rpm-build rsh rsh-server rsync smartmontools
    stunnel strace star sysfsutils sysklogd sysstat tcl tcl-devel tclx
    tclx-devel tcpdump tcp_wrappers tcsh telnet telnet-server tftp time
    tix tix-devel tk tk-devel traceroute tzdata-2008i-1 vim-common
    vim-enhanced vim-minimal vixie-cron which ypbind yp-tools zsh eject
    fontconfig conftconfig-devel ftp freetype freetype-devel gcc gcc-c++
    gcc-g77 gdb libaio libaio-devel libart_lgpl libattr libcap libevent
    libevent-devel libf2c libgcc libgcrypt libgpg-error libgssapi
    libgssapi-devel libidn libjpeg libmng libmng-static libogg libpcap
    libpng libuser libxml2 libxml2-python man minicom ntsysv openmotif22
    openmotif openmotif-devel openmotif21 pam pam_ccreds pam_krb5
    pam_passwdqc pam_smb passwd rdate tar vnc vnc-server xterm yum
    yum-changelog yum-fastestmirror yum-keys yum-list-data
    yum-metadata-parser yum-tmprepo yum-updatesd yum-upgrade-helper
    yum-utils yum-verify zlib zlib-devel sharutils jpackage-utils jwhois
    libutempter sos util-linux openssl097a kdebase.x86_64

    
    Contents of /tmp/genimage.30802.yum.conf:

    [centos5.4-x86_64-0]

    name=centos5.4-x86_64-0

    baseurl=file:///install/centos5.4/x86_64

    gpgpcheck=0

    
    On 7/5/2013 11:29 AM, Chris Kittlitz
      wrote:

    
      What command are you executing?

      
        On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:15 AM,
          Russell Jones <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
          wrote:

          
             Hi all,

              
              Can anyone assist me with understanding what the below
              error means? This occurs when doing a "yum install" into a
              rootdir with CentOS 5 packages on a CentOS 6.4 server.
              This only occurs specifically with CentOS 6.4, if I do the
              exact same command on CentOS 6.3 it works fine. Thank you
              in advance for the help!

              
                Installing :
                  compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4.x86_64                        
                  713/714

                
                  Installing :
                  compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386                      
                  714/714

                Traceback (most recent call last):

                  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in
                  <module>

                    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:],
                  exit_code=True)

                  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line
                  285, in user_main

                    errcode = main(args)

                  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line
                  219, in main

                    return_code = base.doTransaction()

                  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 586,
                  in doTransaction

                    resultobject = self.runTransaction(cb=cb)

                  File
                  "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py",
                  line 1588, in runTransaction

                   
                  self.rpmdb.dropCachedDataPostTransaction(list(self.tsInfo))

                  File
                  "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py",
                  line 343, in dropCachedDataPostTransaction

                    pkg = self.searchNevra(n, e, v, r, a)

                  File
                  "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py",
                  line 1197, in searchNevra

                    return self._search(name, epoch, ver, rel,
                  arch)

                  File
                  "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py",
                  line 1271, in _search

                    mi = ts.dbMatch('name', name)

                _rpm.error: rpmdb open failed

                yum invocation failed

              
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