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RedHat: "Fatal Error opening RPM database" during install

Post by Trebor A. Rud » Sun, 22 Sep 1996 04:00:00



I got the message "Fatal Error opening RPM database" while trying to install
Rembrandt.  This happened just after the hard drives would have been formatted
(if I had selected any to format).

Possibly relevant info from the "install log" screen (vc 3):

(a bunch of mount stuff, setting things up just as I indicated earlier)

* opened /mnt/tmp/install.log
* failed to open /dev/tty5!
* reading /usr/lib/rpmrc
*       done

There doens't seem to be anything relevant on the system log screen (vc 4).  
Just a few warnings about mounting unchecked filesystems.

vc 5 only contains the message I get when fdisk is started.

Oh, and I'm using the boot-7.img and supp-7.img disks for the install.

Can anyone help?  If you need more info, let me know and I'll try to provide
it.

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Name: Trebor A. Rude

Date: 9/18/96
Time: 11:56:53 AM
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RedHat: "Fatal Error opening RPM database" during install

Post by Trebor A. Rud » Sun, 22 Sep 1996 04:00:00


Reposting article removed by rogue canceller.

I got the message "Fatal Error opening RPM database" while trying to install
Rembrandt.  This happened just after the hard drives would have been formatted
(if I had selected any to format).

Possibly relevant info from the "install log" screen (vc 3):

(a bunch of mount stuff, setting things up just as I indicated earlier)

* opened /mnt/tmp/install.log
* failed to open /dev/tty5!
* reading /usr/lib/rpmrc
*       done

There doens't seem to be anything relevant on the system log screen (vc 4).  
Just a few warnings about mounting unchecked filesystems.

vc 5 only contains the message I get when fdisk is started.

Oh, and I'm using the boot-7.img and supp-7.img disks for the install.

Can anyone help?  If you need more info, let me know and I'll try to provide
it.

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Name: Trebor A. Rude

Date: 9/18/96
Time: 11:56:53 AM
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I recently read MacWorld's article on linux for PPC machines and decided
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hard drives:  a 1.2 GB HFS+ (my normal MacOS startup disk), a 250 MB
HFS+ (MacOS backup disk), a 350 MB HFS (with the "RedHat" directory and
a second system folder so I can boot the kernel from a non-HFS+ disk),
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/root 150 MB
/usr  500 MB
/opt  200 MB
/home 150 MB
swap  ~65 MB

I downloaded the base files and all of the RPM files I want to install
to the 350 MB HFS disk and edited the "comp.pmac" file so I wouldn't get
a bunch of errors.  I then used BootXApp to switch to Linux.  When I run
the installer, everything works fine, all the way to the "select
components to install" screen.  Since I only have the stuff I want in my
local "RPMS" directory, I chose "Everything" (actually, I tried this and
checking all the individual items).  It then gives me the message:

    Error:  Fatal error opening RPM database

and it starts to put garbage about something across the screen until it
ends with "it is now safe to reboot...".

I have downloaded all of the files in the "base" directory inside
"RedHat" twice in binary mode (except the comps file).  I then tried
downloading "hdlist" and "uglist" in text mode.  That made no difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
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