First, please do not repost your problem repeatedly. While I understand that you are in a jam, this is no reason to report the same message for the 4'th time. now. Second, can you get a list of what you installed by using rpm -qa and/or kickstart file? Gilboa On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 10:30 +0200, Francois Massonneau wrote: > 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 > >
