WARNING - rpm possibly broken in today's update

[nathan r. hruby]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, John Ellson wrote:

> I just tried to update to today's batch of new development rpms and
> now rpm is broken.
> 
> I could be just me, I suppose, but you might want to hold off updating
> to rpm-4.2.2-0.5.i386.rpm for a while just in case.
> 
> 
> After updating to rpm-4.2.2-0.5.i386.rpm I now get:
> 
>     [root at ontap root]# rpm -q rpm
>     rpmdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version
>     error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
>     error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
>     error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>     package rpm is not installed
> 
> 

Huh..

I'm getting the same error with thte 2.6-test kernels.  Does "rpm -q 
foo" work as a normal user but not root?

-n

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