On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 07:33:59 -0600 (CST) steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Hello, Anne The install wound up going perfectly :) I have already installed Gallery2 from Gallery2's svn tree, and I am now installing KDE, which I omitted when I was with the system because I wanted to go home... OK, here's what I THINK went wrong: > >> it to format. 8. Here's where things start to go bad. The > >> following message pops up as expected: "Starting install process. > >> This may take several minutes..." 9. Then I get a prompt to put in > >> Disc 2, which I do. Then I am asked, in order, for discs 3-5. 10. > >> Then I get a screen that is titled "Exception Occurred" It starts > >> out like this: "An unhandled exception has occured." 11. The main > >> error, repeated multiple times, reads something like this: "error: > >> db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open:DB_VERSION_MISMATCH:Database > >> environment version mismatch. error: cannot open Packages database > >> in /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm" > >> I just had another idea, but I needed to get this down while I was > >> inspired. I'll let you know what happened with my idea. Okay. I had stared at that error message too many times without actually trying to figure out what it said. It said "cannot open Packages database in /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm" What came like a bolt from out of the blue is the fact that I had a /var partition on this system, which of course had a "/var/lib/rpm" in it. The idea I had was to delete that partition and then see what happened. The install proceeded perfectly.... Thank you very much for your interest in my problem, Steven P. Ulrick -- 09:48:13 up 8:21, 0 users, load average: 0.13, 0.13, 0.20
