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PROBLEM:

When installing RPM during HDP Upgrade on few nodes, the installation fails with the following error:

rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unexpected file format or type  
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)

ROOT CAUSE

This issue occurs when the RPM database is corrupt.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, do the following:

  1. Take a backup of existing RPM database:
    mkdir /root/rpmdb.bak
    cp -rp /var/lib/rpm/__db* /root/rpmdb.bak/
  2. Remove the corrupted RPM database files:
    cd /var/lib/rpm
    rm -rf __db*
  3. Rebuild the RPM database:
    rpm --rebuilddb
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