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Yum and Zypper command not working... for any cmds like install , search , update the yum is not working. i am gettin "_rpm.error: rpmdb open failed". can somebody help ...
- 01-27-2011 #1Just Joined!
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Yum not working
Yum and Zypper command not working... for any cmds like install , search , update the yum is not working. i am gettin "_rpm.error: rpmdb open failed". can somebody help me out pls... ??
bcoz of this i am not able to move further
- 01-27-2011 #2Blackfooted Penguin
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Hi and welcome to the forum. Try the following commands as root
Code:yum clean all rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb yum update
- 01-28-2011 #3Just Joined!
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Re: Yum not working Still
I tried all the cmds b4 itself.. not working. "yum clean all" is itself not working. the error i am getting is
"error: dbiOpen: dbapi 1 not available error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm" traceback (most recent call last):
_rpm.error: rpmdb open failed"
- 01-28-2011 #4Blackfooted Penguin
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It seems like there is a problem with your rpm database. Make sure you are root and try
Code:rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb
- 01-28-2011 #5Just Joined!
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As root only
Ya i gave those commands as root only. still not working. whether reinstallin OS wil solve the prob ??? to the worst case i am goin to do that only. bcoz i cant proceed
- 01-28-2011 #6Just Joined!
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download yum the old fasioned way from yum - Trac and install it over the current install.
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