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Hi,

I am a mageia/mandriva nube and have little idea what I am doing, but I decided to give mageia 2 beta 2 a try and I am running into some problems, like when I open the software manager getting the error message "A fatal error occurred: Couldn't open RPM DB )_ at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2/Rpmdrake/open_db line 74 . ."

Please help!!!

Also getting this message when trying to add online media for greater package selection.

"Unable to add medium, errors reported: unable to open rpmdb"

There was a bug in beta2...

So try the following:
Open a terminal (lxterminal, xterm gnome-terminal, konsole, whatever) and get root permissions

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su -

Now first remove the rpm database:

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rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

then rebuild the db

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rpm --rebuilddb

then remove the dvd source and add online repos

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urpmi.removemedia -a
urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://mirrors.mageia.org/api/mageia.cauldron.$ARCH.list'

You have to replace $ARCH by i586 or x86_64 depending on if you are using a 32bit or a 64bit system
Then update your system

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urpmi --auto-select

Or you wait another view days and install the beta3...

Oliver

Didn't seem to work. I guess I'm waiting for beta3

BTW, everything related to Cauldron, the development version of Mageia, belongs in this subforum:
viewforum.php?f=15

Terribly sorry, I've been using mageia for all of 2 days now.

No need to be sorry

obgr_seneca wrote:There was a bug in beta2...

So try the following:
Open a terminal (lxterminal, xterm gnome-terminal, konsole, whatever) and get root permissions

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su -

Now first remove the rpm database:

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rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

then rebuild the db

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rpm --rebuilddb

then remove the dvd source and add online repos

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urpmi.removemedia -a
urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://mirrors.mageia.org/api/mageia.cauldron.$ARCH.list'

You have to replace $ARCH by i586 or x86_64 depending on if you are using a 32bit or a 64bit system
Then update your system

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urpmi --auto-select

Or you wait another view days and install the beta3...

Oliver

After doing this in the terminal, could you then run:

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urpmi --auto-update

Oups...
of course, "--auto-update", not "--auto-select", stupid me...

Wouldn't auto-select have done the job? Since sources have just been added, I would have thought that they would be up to date and so there would be no need to update them. (IIRC auto-update is the same as auto-select, except that auto-update updates the sources first.)

Jim

Stupid me again...

I mixed up "urpmi --auto-select" and "urpmi.update -a"
Yes, the sources have been just added, so "--auto-update" actually does the same as "--auto-select".

Sorry, it's too early in the morning to think.

Oliver

jkerr82508 wrote:Wouldn't auto-select have done the job? Since sources have just been added, I would have thought that they would be up to date and so there would be no need to update them. (IIRC auto-update is the same as auto-select, except that auto-update updates the sources first.)

Jim

Normally there's not much reasons to use --auto-select instead of --auto-update, as the check if the repos are already up-to-date is really fast.

I just thought I would let the Forum know that I just experienced exactly the same problem with my installation of Mageia 2 - which was not a beta version. However, I was able to follow the steps set forth in this post and reinstalled the rpm database, working like a charm again. So, I guess this post still has some relevance after all.

And it works in Mageia 6 with this line;

]# urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://mirrors.mageia.org/api/mageia6.x86_64.list'

Thanks.

And why is there a need to post that to a thread that did not see any reply since 6 years ?