Re: error message from YUM

[Les]

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 21:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Les wrote:
> > If I am reading this debug message correctly, it appears that a lock
> > file is in place.  But the path is not given.
> 
> There are numbered files matching the pattern:
> /var/lib/rpm/__db.???
> 
> These are used to access the actual RPM database and also hold its locks.
> Deleting these files allows recovering from locking issues.
> 
> WARNING: Do not delete any other files in /var/lib/rpm!
> 
> Kevin Kofler
> 
It turned out that I had to reboot (power issues), and during that
exercise, the locks cleared, and yum is back to working again.  

But thanks for the reminder about the database files.  I should have
thought of that.

Regards,
Les H


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Re: error message from YUM

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 11:44 -0700, Les wrote:
> Error Type: 
> Error Value: rpmdb open failed

Does this go away after a reboot?

Richard.


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Re: error message from YUM

[Kevin Kofler]

Les wrote:
> If I am reading this debug message correctly, it appears that a lock
> file is in place.  But the path is not given.

There are numbered files matching the pattern:
/var/lib/rpm/__db.???

These are used to access the actual RPM database and also hold its locks.
Deleting these files allows recovering from locking issues.

WARNING: Do not delete any other files in /var/lib/rpm!

Kevin Kofler

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error message from YUM

[Les]

Hi, everyone,
I am running F10.  I attempted to review some yum groups using the
Add/Remove Software button, and the window gives me the following error:

Error Type: 
Error Value: rpmdb open failed
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2314, in

main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2310, in
main
backend = PackageKitYumBackend('', lock=True)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 182, in
__init__
self.yumbase = PackageKitYumBase(self)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2253, in
__init__
self.repos.confirm_func = self._repo_gpg_confirm
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 589, in

repos = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepos(),
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 395, in
_getRepos
self._getConfig() # touch the config class first
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 192, in
_getConfig
self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py, line 774, in
readMainConfig
yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot,
startupconf.distroverpkg)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py, line 844, in
_getsysver
idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)


If I am reading this debug message correctly, it appears that a lock
file is in place.  But the path is not given.

If I use a terminal and do yum commands directly (I tried several, but
didn't keep a log) they seem to work correctly.  So this appears to be
some lock that is generated by the Add/Remove Software utility, and not
yum itself.

Any clues?  Looking up the yum help on line didn't provide any
illumination (as I expected, since this appears to be the window, and
not the utility).

Regards,
Les H

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