[Yum] _rpm.error: rpmdb open failed

[Russell Jones]

On 7/5/2013 2:13 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> On 07/05/2013 07:46 PM, Russell Jones wrote:
>> Here you go:
>>
>> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum -y -c /tmp/genimage.30802.yum.conf
>> --installroot=/install/netboot/centos5.4/x86_64/rootimg/ --disablerepo=*
>> --enablerepo=centos5.4-x86_64-0 install bc mysql SysVinit control-center
> <snip>
>> jpackage-utils jwhois libutempter sos util-linux openssl097a 
>> kdebase.x86_64
>>
>>
>> Contents of /tmp/genimage.30802.yum.conf:
>> [centos5.4-x86_64-0]
>> name=centos5.4-x86_64-0
>> baseurl=file:///install/centos5.4/x86_64
>> gpgpcheck=0
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/5/2013 11:29 AM, Chris Kittlitz wrote:
>>> What command are you executing?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Russell Jones <russell at jonesmail.me
>>> <mailto:russell at jonesmail.me>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi all,
>>>
>>>     Can anyone assist me with understanding what the below error
>>>     means? This occurs when doing a "yum install" into a rootdir with
>>>     CentOS 5 packages on a CentOS 6.4 server. This only occurs
>>>     specifically with CentOS 6.4, if I do the exact same command on
>>>     CentOS 6.3 it works fine. Thank you in advance for the help!
>>>
>
> Why in hell are you installing 5.x packages on 6.4 system??????
>


Hi Ljubomir,

This is installing into a separate install root (via --installroot), not 
the base system itself. This is then later used to create diskless PXE 
boot images for booting client systems.

This works fine on CentOS 6.3, but as you can see generates that error 
on CentOS 6.4. Trying to get the node used to create these images up to 
CentOS 6.4 if I can.