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I have a RHEL 6 system, that I primarily manage through RHN Satellite. Recently I scheduled some updates through Satellite and received a response that the updates had failed. I ssh'd into the system to investigate, and saw this warning when running yum:

Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.

How do I fix this warning?

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    Stop installing and removing packages with the rpm command and stick to yum.
    – user143703
    Apr 12, 2017 at 22:44
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    yum clean all , then next time you use yum warning should not appear or you can try " yum history sync"
    – arana
    Apr 12, 2017 at 23:24
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    See superuser.com/questions/558200/… about installing RPMs with yum
    – mwfearnley
    Jun 12, 2018 at 12:30

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As noted by arana and supported by RHEL documentation, another command (that worked in my situation) is:

yum history sync

It will iterate through the installed RPMs and synchronize the rpm & yumdb databases.

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As mentioned in the comments, this is a harmless warning that informs you that a package has been installed or removed directly using the rpm command instead of yum. The difference is that yum automatically resolves dependencies for you and keeps the package-management DB on your system up-to-date.

See Execution of yum leads to "Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum." for an official explanation of the message on the Red Hat Customer Portal.

To get rid of the warning, run:

# yum history new

See also yum or rpm, which contains further explanations and links to Red Hat documentation about both Yum and RPM.

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    that DID solve the problem, but it also deletes the history.
    – Steffen Roller
    Jun 8, 2018 at 15:05
  • This part is confusing as written because RPM also does both of those things: “The difference is that yum automatically resolves dependencies for you and keeps the package-management DB on your system up-to-date.” The difference is that YUM has a more advanced resolution system which can avoid edge cases such as when a dependency isn't in the same repository.
    – Chris Adams
    Sep 6 at 14:40

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