On Thursday 20 October 2005 02:15, Francois Massonneau wrote: snip > > > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery > > > error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, > > > run database recovery > > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30977) > > > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 27, in ? > > > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > > > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 75, in main > > > base.getOptionsConfig(args) > > > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 170, in getOptionsConfig > > > self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root) > > > File "__init__.py", line 82, in doConfigSetup > > > File "config.py", line 271, in __init__ > > > File "config.py", line 383, in _getsysver > > > TypeError: rpmdb open failed > > > > Francois > > -- It looks to me as if yum (or python) is having some issues itself. You could try reinstalling yum with rpm. The command would look something like this (one line); rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/stable/yum-2.4.0-63.rhfc4.at.i386.rpm
