On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:21:16 +0530 Vivek Prasannan <vivek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While trying to install or query packages, I get this error. > ______________________________________________________________________ > rpm -qa > rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery > error: db4 error(-30982) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run > database recovery > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30982) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > no packages > _____________________________________________________________________ > Anyone knows how to fix ?? > > --initdb and --rebuilddb didnt work :-/ > > -Vivek if you kill rpm or the system crashes or sometimes if you use yum/apt together things like this can happen. Try typing the following: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm -vv --rebuilddb Hope that helps
