Why does yum or up2date or rhnreg_ks terminate with error 'Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running' on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Issue
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Why does yum or up2date terminate with error 'Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running' on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
$ yum repolist Loaded plugins: changelog, downloadonly, kmod, protectbase, rhnplugin, security, versionlock rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: d296 error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12) rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: d299 error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument 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 309, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig self.conf File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 664, in <lambda> conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(), File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 253, in _getConfig self.plugins.run('init') File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 179, in run func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs)) File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 111, in init_hook login_info = up2dateAuth.getLoginInfo() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 217, in getLoginInfo login() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 181, in login maybeUpdateVersion() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 45, in maybeUpdateVersion systemVer = up2dateUtils.getVersion() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 46, in getVersion os_release, version, release = _getOSVersionAndRelease() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 36, in _getOSVersionAndRelease raise up2dateErrors.RpmError( up2date_client.up2dateErrors.RpmError: RPM error. The message was: Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running. If you get this error, try running rpm --rebuilddb -
rhn register command against satellite server fails with the message below
$ rhnreg_ks An error has occurred: Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running. If you get this error, try running rpm --rebuilddb -
Attempting to apply updates using the Gnome Updater applet and am receiving the following error:
$ Component: pirut Summary: TB008f8aa3 up2dateUtils.py:36:_getOSVersionAndRelease:RpmError: Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running. If you get this error, try running rpm --rebuilddb
Environment
- Red Hat Enterpirse Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterpirse Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterpirse Linux 3
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