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error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

From: Robert Scheck <robert@rpm5.org>
Date: Thu 26 Jul 2007 - 21:51:00 CEST
Message-ID: <20070726195100.GA10117@hurricane.linuxnetz.de>

Ideas? I was using rpm 4.5-0.3 switched to -0.4 and switched back to -0.3
after that I've this or very similar errors for every rpmdb action.

# rpm -vvv -qa
D: dbiOpen: _dbiapi failed
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
#


Robert

Received on Thu Jul 26 21:51:04 2007

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