[solved] Recent rpm update kills drakrpm

[jbarntt56]

A couple of days ago there was an update to rpm. I applied it, and now the "Install or Remove software" from Control panels fails to download and install selected packages.

An error message says:
drakrpm crashed: undefined value for 'uri' in /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.1/GtK3.pm line 901

As far as I can tell, by using Dolphin, that file doesn't exist.

FYI - rpm --version, from the console, returns rpm 4.12.0.1

Any help, much appreciated.

TIA,

Joel

[jkerr82508]

This is probably due to this bug:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17836

Comment 46 in that bug report indicates that the problem should be resolved soon, but if you don't want to wait, comments 37 and 39 in that bug report suggest as root execute

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find /var/lib/urpmi/ | grep descriptions

If descriptions files are found, as root execute

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rm -v /var/lib/urpmi/Core*/descriptions

to remove them.

Jim

[jbarntt56]

Thanks, Jim

The solution you posted worked like a charm. Well, after a few times of typing core* instead of Core*

Joel