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Geetika
Geetika

Reputation: 336

How to remove: rpmdb failed release provides

I am trying to execute command yum search livy and getting following error:

CRITICAL:yum.main:

Error: rpmdb failed release provides. Try: rpm --rebuilddb

I tried below steps to resolve the error:

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

db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages

rpm --rebuilddb

All the above commands are running successfully, but when I run yum command after this, I am receiving the same error.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6083

Answers (1)

zorry
zorry

Reputation: 46

Probably a little late for you but it might help, ran into the same issue today.

Other that a reinstall of the system I didn't find anything useful, here's what I did (I have TSM as backup solution):

I did a restore of the files in /var/lib/rpm from 2 days ago:

mkdir rpmstuff

dsmc restore -pitd=05/03/2020 "/var/lib/rpm/*" "/root/rpmstuff/"

Be sure to kill of any processes if they are running:

ps -ef | grep 'rpm\|yum'

kill -9 pid

Remove the files that are currently in the directory, hidden ones also:

cd /var/lib/rpm

rm -rf *

\rm .dbenv.lock .rpm.lock

Copy the recovered files:

cp -av /root/rpmstuff/rpm/* .

Then:

\rm -rf __db.00*

rpm --rebuilddb

yum clean all

yum repolist

Worked for me, hope it helps.

Have a good one!

Upvotes: 2

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