[SOLVED] Problem with Add/remove software in Fedora 14

[senka]

I have a problem with the add/remove software program, when i open it or try to search for new programs i get the following message:
"An internal system error has occured

A problem that we were not expecting has occured.
Please report this bug in your distribution bugtracker with
the error description"
Under more details it says:

Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.YumBaseError'>
Error Value: Error: rpmdb open failed
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3612, in <module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3608, in main
backend = PackageKitYumBackend('', lock=True)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 264, in __init__
self.doLock()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 350, in doLock
self.yumbase.doLock(YUM_PID_FILE)
File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 1585, in doLock
if self.conf.uid != 0:
File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 831, in <lambda>
conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 277, in _getConfig
startupconf = config.readStartupConfig(fn, root)
File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/config.py, line 859, in readStartupConfig
startupconf.releasever = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)
File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/config.py, line 1004, in _getsysver
raise Errors.YumBaseError("Error: " + str(e))

I am new to fedora and linux so I have no clue what this means and how to fix it,
if somebody could help me out that would be awesome.

/Senka

[AndrewSerk]

Hello and welcome to fedoraforum.org,

You could try this: Go Applications > System Tools > Terminal and input the following:

su -
yum clean all
yum upgrade

You will have to type in your root password after the su - .

Hope this helps

[senka]

The only thing i get when doing that is new errors:

"[root@localhost ~]# yum clean all
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
CRITICAL:yum.main:

Error: rpmdb open failed
[root@localhost ~]# yum upgrade
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
CRITICAL:yum.main:

Error: rpmdb open failed"

Hope that says something to someone

[Smoking Tux]

Just try to rebuild the rpm database:

# mv /var/lib/rpm/__db* /tmp
# rpm --rebuilddb

[AndrewSerk]

Maybe try this:

su -
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb
yum upgrade

[senka]

Originally Posted by AndrewSerk

Maybe try this:

su -
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebulddb
yum upgrade

This worked perfect, thanks everybody for the help