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  John 5:04 pm on June 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Fedora 10, Fedora 11 (3), Linux (15)   

  Fedora 11 is out, upgrade time 

  So Fedora 11 has been out for a little while now and I’m getting ready to upgrade. Previously I have tried using the upgrade facility however I normally end up having to perform a clean install. So now I’m currently backing up my home directories to my external storage ready to wipe everything and start again. Ill update how this goes.

  Update: Install was painless simple selecting of packages that wanted to install. However my internet connection was playing up which meant that it hung whilst trying to download packages from the net. Currently installing the nvidia packages from rpmfusion.

  Update Everything is up and running and I have restored all my data back on. A few problems and annoyances. There is a problem with the non-free nvidia driver. The only other annoyance is the System -> Preferences menu is not split into further sub menus which creates a menu that doesn’t fit on my screen. I have yet to have a proper play with everything else but so far it all looks good.

   

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  John 4:55 pm on April 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Fedora 10, Linux (15)   

  Problems With Yum On Fedora 10 

  So every now and again YUM stops working and throwing out error messages usually after I’ve been to uni.

  rpmdb: Thread/process 4348/3087935168 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
  error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
  error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30975)
  error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in 
      yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main
      errcode = main(args)
    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main
      base.getOptionsConfig(args)
    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig
      enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 192, in _getConfig
      self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 774, in readMainConfig
      yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 844, in _getsysver
      idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
  TypeError: rpmdb open failed
  

  After a quick search I found a solution. Deleting the __db.* files in /var/lib/rpm fixes it

  $ sudo rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
  

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    A. Dan 5:09 am on June 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    I have seen the same problem when I installed fedora 11 LiveCD (great) on an 8 gig USB drive off the CD, but has no effect on other system functionality, the OS would have crashed long ago with blue and black c=screens of death, yet this OS is running strong? as this note leaving of its firefox 3.5b4 (great also). thank you for the advice and this do solve along with the reboot. It is very stable OS, and I would take my hat off to salute.

    sudo rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.* would do it and a reboot then after would also be prudent! many thanks to all?