Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:19:34 -0800 (PST)
Hello,
Thanks for the suggestion - unfortunately I'm still getting the same error. Any idea
on how to upgrade an rpmdb by hand?
Eric
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From: Roderick A. Anderson <raanders@cyber-office.net>
To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:35:33 AM
Subject: Re: [vserver] copied vservers to a new host, and now can't use vyum
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
>
Hello,
Thanks for the suggestion - unfortunately I'm still getting the same error. Any idea on how to upgrade an rpmdb by hand?
Eric
From: Roderick A. Anderson <raanders@cyber-office.net>
To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:35:33 AM
Subject: Re: [vserver] copied vservers to a new host, and now can't use
vyum
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
>