Hi All,

today i am facing a issue of corrupted RPM database
when i run command # rpm -qa it didn't show anything

rpm -qa |grep -i yum no packages

#yum list
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig
self.conf
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 665, in <lambda>
conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 240, in _getConfig
self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 805, in readMainConfig
yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 884, in _getsysver
hdr = idx.next()

then i follow the below command to recreate the RPM database


# cd /var/spool/up2date
# rm *
# rm .*
# ps -aux | grep -e rpm -e yum -e up2date
# lsof | grep /var/lib/rpm
#rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

# cd /var/lib/rpm
# rm -f __db* # to avoid stale locks
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages
#/usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages
# echo $?
0
# mv Packages Packages.orig
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_dump Packages.orig | /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_load Packages

# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages
# rpm -qa >/dev/null # Validating there are no errors

# rpm -vv --rebuilddb

# cd /var/lib/rpm
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages
# rpm -qa # Validating list of installed RPMs

but still it shown no packages Please suggest if someone have any info

You don't tell us what version/distro of Linux you're using, so we can only guess. Given what you posted, it seems like you're using an old version of Red Hat Enterprise...are you PAYING FOR RHEL??? If so, contact Red Hat support for assistance. And since you're getting Python errors, have you recently updated python on that system??

This is covered on Red Hat's knowledgebase:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6903

RHEL5.3 64Bit.we are paying for some other server not for this server .we have only updated the bash packages only few month back part from that. i think we haven't update the box we already us this below like & many other to resolve it but this doesn't resolve the issue now i am thinking i have to check other servers which have the exactly same installed package set & then try to rebuild the rpm db .
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6903

Hi All,

Now i have resolve the issue as i have takes the backup of the RPM directory from other server which have the same OS version
"var/lib/rpm" & then move the RPM directory on the other server which have the RPMdatabase is corrupted.after that all works fine the rpm-qa have listing all the packages after that i have remove the _db file so that i can create fresh file of the server so i have do that & successfully completed.

#rpm --rebuilddb