Re: defect rom-database

Götz Reinicke wrote:

Hi,

I tried to update a redhat 9 server to fedora core 1. The update failed with an error like: The installationimage couldn't be transfered. Maybe insufficient free disk space.

After a Reboot, the server started but I can't query or install rpm packages:

[root@klee rpm]# rpm -qa
rpmdb: write: 0xbfffc610, 8192: Das Argument ist ungültig
Fehler: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Das Argument ist ungültig
Fehler: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Das Argument ist ungültig (22)
Fehler: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
no packages

Any Ideas?

Thanks for all hints!

regards

Götz Reinicke

Looks like what I've had when updating from RH9 to FC1 last friday... Remove the /var/lib/rpm/__db* files , then run rpmdb --rebuilddb -v . It'll print lots of things.. when it's done , try the rpm -qa again... it'll work perfectly...

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Pedro Macedo