Hello, I got a pb yesterday, when I wanted to run the usual "yum update" command. I got the following message : rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30977) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 27, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 75, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 170, in getOptionsConfig self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root) File "__init__.py", line 82, in doConfigSetup File "config.py", line 271, in __init__ File "config.py", line 383, in _getsysver TypeError: rpmdb open failed Then I tried to delete the /var/lib/rpm/__db.* files, and reran the command : rpm -vv --rebuilddb Same result :-( : rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery erreur: erreur db4(-30977) de dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery erreur: ne peut ouvrir l'index Packages en utilisant db3 - (-30977) I deleted again the __db.* files and reran the same command. This time, no more error messages. It seemed it was ok, but nope ;-( I can't any longer update a package, nor see the packages I installed a while ago. It seems that just a few packages are in the newly created (or repaired) database, but not all packages installed by me, since I put that FC4 on my system. Is there a way to rebuild the database with all the packages installed on that computer, if so, how, and get a system that I can update as I want. Thank you so much for you help, because I'm totally lost. Francois
