--- Devon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:47 am, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi, > > When I run the following command (whether as root or a normal > user): > > > > $ rpm -q -vv --redhatprovides libcrypto.so.0 > > > > I get the answer: > > D: opening db index > > /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 > > D: closed db index > > /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/Packages > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or > directory > > (2) > > > > How can I fix this error? > > First, you do have the rpmdb-redhat package installed according to > your > output. Do you also have rpmdb-powertools package?
.. I have it installed now -- it didn't change the situation ... > On a 7.1 machine, > I > have > rpmdb-redhat-7.1-0.20010408 > rpmdb-powertools-7.1-0.20010305 > > Why the -vv option? Verbose output for a query? Yes. > > I normally use: > $ rpm --redhatprovides libcrypto.so.0 > openssl095a-0.9.5a-1 ... does not work here: $ rpm --redhatprovides libcrypto.so.0 error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) this works: $ rpm -q --whatprovides libcrypto.so.0 openssl-0.9.5a-7.6.x > > The command you gave does work here, it just hides the answer in the > output. > $ rpm -q -vv --redhatprovides libcrypto.so.0 > D: opening db index > /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 > D: locked db index > /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/Packages > D: opening db index > /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/Providename rdonly mode=0x0 > openssl095a-0.9.5a-1 > > The only thing I would suggest at this point is to try 'rpm > --rebuilddb' .. I just did a rebuild of the db, to no avail... after this doing a: rpm --initdb also with no change of the situation > - -------- > > The following qualifies as a wild guess. I've never used this option > myself. > > You might also want to try running rpm --rebuilddb --dbpath \ > usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/ ... is this path the default path for the rpm database for Redhat 6.2?: /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/ (I'd like to be careful with this last command you mentioned ... :)) > Watch the line break above, it's all one command. > You may need to use the above to tell rpm to specifically rebuild the > > redhat-rpmdb > Perhaps this would be an issue if rpm has been upgraded? I remember > having to rebuild the main database after an upgrade, perhaps from > the > 3.* to 4.* version of rpm? ... IIRC I upgraded it to the current 4.* version some time ago .. normally rpm works fine here .. it just doesn't give me this special option to run .. and I wonder why, because db3 is installed ... > - -------- > > If that doesn't help, lets see the output of 'rpm -qa|grep rpm' ? > $ rpm -qa|grep rpm rpm-python-4.0.2-6x rpm-devel-4.0.2-6x rpm-build-4.0.2-6x gnorpm-0.95.1-6.6x rpm2html-1.2-6 rpmfind-1.4-3 rpm-4.0.2-6x rpmdb-powertools-6.1-1 rpmdb-redhat-6.2-0.20000308 rpmlint-0.8-10 Regards -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
