Subject: Re: [vserver] copied vservers to a new host, and now can't use vyum
From: Eric Jorgensen <jorgy@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:19:34 -0800 (PST)
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
>