On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:50 -0800, alan wrote:
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Dave Stevens wrote:
trying to do yuom install scribus I get this:
Component: Software Installer Summary: TB6b5e0e87 config.py:661:_getsysver:TypeError: rpmdb open failed
This is one of two problems.
Either it is the rpm locking problem (which is a known issue). Reboot the machine and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then it is a known issue.
I have also seen some problems where yum errors out. Running "yum clean all" seems to fix the problem.
If those two fail try "rpm --rebuilddb".
I'd recommend an "rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*" (two underscores) before the "rpm --rebuilddb".
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