Subject: Re: [vserver] copied vservers to a new host, and now can't use vyum
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@cyber-office.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:35:33 -0800

Eric Jorgensen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I moved from a centos4 to centos5 based system.  The new system is a 
> DHozak kernel:  2.6.22.19-vs2.3.0.34.1 and I'm running is 
> util-vserver-0.30.216-1.pre2793. 
> 
> I copied over /etc/vservers and /vservers to the new host using tar 
> since there are symbolic links.  However, now that I'm on the new host, 
> I am unable to run vyum on any of my guests.  They are a combination of 
> centos 4 and 5.   I was running an older version of util-vserver on the 
> previous host; I do not know the exact version now.
> 
> This is the error I get:
> 
> [root@servernew ~]# vyum j_hia -- check-update
> rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version
> error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database 
> environment version mismatch
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /vservers/j_hia/.rpmdb
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 85, in main
>     base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 163, in getOptionsConfig
>     disabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.disableplugins))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 164, in 
> _getConfig
>     self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 706, in 
> readMainConfig
>     yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, 
> startupconf.distroverpkg)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 776, in 
> _getsysver
>     idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
> 
> 
> Any  help would be appreciated in being able to use vyum again.

Somewhere along the way dbm was move from version three to four.  They 
don't play well together.

Totally a from-the-hip shot and untested; you might try vrpm $GUEST -- 
--rebuilddb


Rod
-- 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Eric
>