Broke my RPM program

vincebs · 12-27-2003, 11:39 PM

Hi everyone,

I tried to upgrade my RPM program by using the Fedora Project's RPM packages. I downloaded and installed rpm-4.2.2-0.7.i386.rpm, rpm-build-4.2.2-0.7.i386.rpm, rpm-devel-4.2.2-0.7.i386.rpm, and rpm-python-4.2.2-0.7.i386.rpm

Now whenever I try to run rpm, I get these error messages:

Code:

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

I can't uninstall rpm-4.2.2 because it's an RPM package that needs rpm itself to uninstall!
I can't install rpmdb-fedora-1.90-0.20031227.i386.rpm because it's an RPM-package.

Anyone know how I can fix rpm? Help! I don't want to be stuck installing everything from source tarballs!

Thanks,
Vince

ezra143 · 12-28-2003, 02:14 AM

how about removing the rpm package manually and then reinstalling it from source ie; the source cd's for RH9

vincebs · 12-28-2003, 10:31 AM

How do I remove rpm? Damn, so do I have to download and burn the RH9 sources?

ezra143 · 12-28-2003, 01:51 PM

I'm just guessing, but yes. Once you have the Source, you can look for the installation files and directories (i doubt they changed much in fedora) and then remove them manually. Then compile RPM from source. Or, you can take this opportunity to move to Fedora in whole.

vincebs · 12-29-2003, 01:46 AM

Hmm, that's odd, my rpm program works when I boot into kernel 2.6.0 but not in my stable 2.4.18 environment. I guess rpm 4.2.2 was only designed to work on 2.6.0 kernels.