On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 18:41, Naoki wrote: > Any idea why this would die ? > > rpm -q works, anything else fails like this. I have only seen this error once. Are you on a public network? Check for rootkits. You may have been hacked. A friend of mine got his system rooted. The rootkit rewrote the rpm database, but with the wrong version. chkrootkit is available from http://www.chkrootkit.org/ > > [me@host ~]$ sudo rpm --rebuilddb > 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 > [me@host ~]$ rpm -v > RPM version 4.3.1 > > [me@host ~]$ rpm -q db4 > db4-4.2.52-3.1 > > Try with verbose : > > $ sudo rpm --rebuilddb -vv > D: rebuilding database /var/lib/rpm into /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.22094 > D: creating directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.22094 > D: opening old database with dbapi 3 > D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery > error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, > run database recovery > D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 > error: cannot open Packages index > D: removing directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.22094 -- Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
