Sometimes you may get the following error while working with yum:
root@server2 [~]# yum install kernel-smp
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
update : ################################################## 372/372
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 97, in main
result, resultmsgs = do()
File “/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py”, line 470, in doCommands
return self.installPkgs()
File “/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py”, line 836, in installPkgs
self.doRepoSetup()
File “/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py”, line 75, in doRepoSetup
self.doSackSetup(thisrepo=thisrepo)
File “__init__.py”, line 260, in doSackSetup
File “repos.py”, line 287, in populateSack
File “sqlitecache.py”, line 96, in getPrimary
File “sqlitecache.py”, line 89, in _getbase
File “sqlitecache.py”, line 373, in updateSqliteCache
File “/var/tmp/python-sqlite-root//usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py”, line 244, in execute
_sqlite.DatabaseError: unable to open database file
To fix this
You will have to erase the sqlite, sqlite-devel,python-sqlite rpm packages in your system
Matching packages have to be manually downloaded and installed
You can use http://rpm.pbone.net/ to download the package for the particular release of your operating system
rpm -qa|grep -i sqlite
rpm -e sqlite python-sqlite sqlite-devel
Then install the packages downloaded from rpm.pbone.net
This post was written by Anoop Alias on May 7, 2008
