On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 21:56, jonas2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> How fix rpmdb error:
>
> bash-2.05b$ up2date
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
> run database recovery
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30978)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1271, in ?
> sys.exit(main() or 0)
> File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 680, in main
> ret = sanityChecks(fromDaemon, hasGui)
> File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 295, in sanityChecks
> if cfg["useGPG"] and gpgUtils.checkGPGInstallation() == 2:
> File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gpgUtils.py", line 31, in
> checkGPGInstallation
> if not findKey(redhat_gpg_fingerprint):
> File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gpgUtils.py", line 75, in findKey
> return rpmUtils.installedHeadersNameVersion("gpg-pubkey", version)
> File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 102, in
> installedHeadersNameVersion
> mi = _ts.dbMatch('Name', pkgName)
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
>
> this happened after apt-get upgrade downloads
> by fedora-2 kernel 2.6.6-1
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try (as root)
rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/*db*
rpm --rebuilddb
Craig
