yum.conf and sources

[Søren Neigaard]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:27, Paul Howarth wrote:
> up2date has a different configuration file than yum. Try "yum
> check-update" to check for updates, and "yum update" to actually do the
> update.

Oh maybe the problem is a very different animal, here is what i get if i
run "yum check-update":

rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30978)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 163, in main
    (log, errorlog, filelog, conf, cmds) = parseCmdArgs(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 75, in parseCmdArgs
    conf=yumconf(configfile=yumconffile)
  File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 155, in __init__
    self.yumvar['releasever'] = self._getsysver()
  File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 285, in _getsysver
    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', self.distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed

What can I do about this? Is there a database recovery tool I can use?

Best regards
Søreb