Re: failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb imaginet fr>]

> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:16:08 -0400
> From: Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net>
>
> Try rpm -qvv apache
> 
> That should give incredibly verbose output that might help us better see
> the problem.  Maybe not, but it would be a start.
> 
> -Stan

Well, thank you, I did not thought of using -vv. Here are the results:

[root@hermes /root]# rpm -qvv apache
D: opening database mode 0x0 in //var/lib/rpm/
failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed

[root@hermes /root]# rpm -q -a -vv       
D: opening database mode 0x0 in //var/lib/rpm/
failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed

Not much more helpful...


> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote:
> 
> > > > I have this problem:
> > > >
> > > >     [pascal@hermes pascal]$ su
> > > >     Password:
> > > >     [root@hermes pascal]# rpm -q -a
> > > >     failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > What would you do in my case ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > su -
> > >
> > > df
> > >
> > > Perhaps /var is not mounted?
> >
> > Well, thank you for stating  the obvious (sometimes it's usefull), but
> > this  will  not  work  this  time  : I  really  have  a  problem  with
> > packages.rpm.
> >
> > [pascal@hermes pascal]$ su -
> > Password:
> > [root@hermes /root]# rpm -q -a
> > failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> >
> > rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
> > [root@hermes /root]# df
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sdc1             1.7G  1.3G  329M  81% /
> > /dev/sdc2             1.1G  872M  286M  75% /mnt/usr1
> > /dev/sdc3             1.1G  987M  171M  85% /mnt/usr2
> > /dev/sdb1             2.0G  521M  1.4G  27% /mnt/usr3
> > [root@hermes /root]# ls -l /var/lib/rpm
> > total 22217
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16384 Nov 28  1999 conflictsindex.rpm
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      4861952 Nov 28  1999 fileindex.rpm
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        24576 Nov 28  1999 groupindex.rpm
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        49152 Nov 28  1999 nameindex.rpm
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     14906824 Nov 28  1999 packages.rpm
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        49152 Nov 28  1999 providesindex.rpm
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2727936 Nov 28  1999 requiredby.rpm
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16384 Nov 28  1999 triggerindex.rpm
> > [root@hermes /root]# ps ax|grep rpm
> > 10647 pts/3    S      0:00 grep rpm
> >
> > So, is there any "easy" way out of this "failed to open
> > //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm" problem?
> >
> > Thank you for  the security related hint about su, but  this host is a
> > special case  where it's better that I  use su. On my  own machines, I
> > routinely use `su -`.

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