error: Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading: No such file or directory

[R_A_IIT]

Hi all,

My problem started when I wanted to upgrade PHP 5.3.x to 5.4.x

I followed this Parallels guide "How to upgrade PHP to PHP 5.4 on CentOS 5 from remi repository" found here http://kb.parallels.com/en/115833

After executing step 4 which is:
4. Remove all PHP 5.3 components and the PHP 5.3 configurator:

rpm -e --nodeps `rpm -qa | grep psa-php53-configurator-`

	rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep 'php53-' | xargs`

I've lost the following:
1- yum
2- rpm
3- plesk access

1- when I type yum, i get:
[root~]# yum
error: Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading: No such file or directory.
error: no dbpath has been set
error: cannot open Packages database in /%{_dbpath}
CRITICAL:yum.main:

Error: rpmdb open failed
[root~]#

2- When I type rpm, I get:
[root~]# rpm
-bash: rpm: command not found
[root~]#

3- when accessing plesk via he web, I get:

ERROR: Service_Agent_Exception
Up Level
Unable to read components configuration from the service node: error: Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading: No such file or directory.
Fatal error: plesk::InternalRpmError(Internal RPM error: Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading: No such file or directory.
)



Please help me I am in serious trouble as this server is very important for us and we invested a lot of time to prepare it for the launch of our websites and online operations.


I am running Centos 6.4 64bit.

Regards,
RA

 

[jaketone]

I just had this exact same thing happen to me 10 minutes ago!

I have a few boxes running the exact same setup, so I had to copy over the /usr/lib/rpm directory and of course add the symbolic links and finally added rpm to /bin.

This should fix it but I'd still run : yum install rpm-build.x86_64

 

[Nikolay.]

After executing step 4 which is:
4. Remove all PHP 5.3 components and the PHP 5.3 configurator:

rpm -e --nodeps `rpm -qa | grep psa-php53-configurator-`

	rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep 'php53-' | xargs`

You must have executed this as a single command, while this should have been two separate commands:

# rpm -e --nodeps `rpm -qa | grep psa-php53-configurator-`

# rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep 'php53-' | xargs`

When ran as a single command rpm just removed itself.