cannot open Providename index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)

[Vijay N. Majagaonkar]

I am installing latest version provided by centos updates. i am using
rpm-build 4.4.2.3-20.el5_5.1 and db4 4.3.29-10.el5_5.2
well these are two packages from centos update tree, but still issue exists.

now i am not able to build package in case of any rpm query in build script.

[sh]

kerneldir=/lib/modules/`rpm -q kernel | sed '$!d' | sed
's/kernel-//g'`/build

[/sh]
above is shell script to find out installed kernel version in chroot, where
it throw following error
[error]

error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

[/error]


is there any way to solve this issue or how to find installed kernel version
in chroot ?



~thanks
Vijay.


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Panu Matilainen
<pmatilai at laiskiainen.org>wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Vijay N. Majagaonkar wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running out of strange problem at the time of creating ISO, ISO
> created
> > successfully but it failed at the time of OS installation and this what i
> > found in root.log file
> >
> > I am not able to under stand the what is the problem "cannot open
> > Providename index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)"
> >
> >
> > can someone please give me some point or direction to fix this,
>
> This is the all-important clue:
>
> rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 9
>
> You're apparently creating an image for an older distro on a newer one,
> and the older RPM / Berkeley DB combo on the installed image doesn't
> support the hash format of the newer BDB from the newer distro (on which
> you created the image).
>
> There's no general "easy" solution for it I'm afraid. If possible, use an
> older distro (of the same era as the one you're creating the image for) to
> create the image. Another possibility might be downgrading the rpmdb
> format with db_dump and db_load from suitably versioned db4-utils, but
> that gets a bit tricky.
>
>        - Panu -
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