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getting these errors:
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# up2date
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 17, in ?
from up2date_client import rpcServer
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 8, in ?
import up2dateAuth
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 4, in ?
import rpmSource
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 11, in ?
import up2dateUtils
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 15, in ?
import rpmUtils
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 274, in ?
rpm_version = getRpmVersion()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 265, in getRpmVersion
db = openrpmdb()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 52, in openrpmdb
raise up2dateErrors.RpmError(_("Could not open RPM database for reading. Perhaps it is already in use?"))
up2date_client.up2dateErrors.RpmError: RPM error. The message was:
Could not open RPM database for reading. Perhaps it is already in use?
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any ideas? I requested a Red Hat Linux 7.3 reinstall recently. Could this be because it wasn't installed fully? Any ideas how to correct this without another install?
Hmmm, you could try to run rpm --initdb, which would recreate/create your rpm db. Then you could run your rpm --rebuilddb to build the table with the headers that you currently have installed..
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