Thanks...that fixed it! -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin J. Weiss [mailto:benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 8:41 AM To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Rpmdb error in log file Ryan Golhar wrote: >Looking into it more, it looks like after RedHat released Update 4 for >EL WS, some package got upgraded and now the rpm database can't be >read. > > >I'm not sure how to fix this, or even where to begin other than >rebuilding my workstations... > ><snip> > >Hi all, > >I went away on vacation for the last two weeks and came back to find >all my machines reporting the following error in the nightly cron log: > >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 > > >It repeats this many times over. I tried running up2date but get the >same error. Any ideas? > > > Ryan, I'm not having this problem, but if it is indeed an RPM database issue, you can rebuild it with the following: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00? rpm --rebuilddb That *should* take care of it, I hope. HTH, Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
