Re: _rpm.error: rpmdb open failed

What command are you executing?


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Russell Jones <[email protected]> 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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