On Thursday 20 October 2005 00:40, jludwig wrote:
I don't know whether or not I have to keep the whole message, but it is
important to understand what I did.
See below my reply
> > 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
> > --
> >
> >From man rpm;
>
> RPM(8) Red Hat Linux
> RPM(8)
>
> NAME
> rpm - RPM Package Manager
>
> SYNOPSIS
> QUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES:
> rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]
>
> rpm {-V|--verify} [select-options] [verify-options]
>
> rpm --import PUBKEY ...
>
> rpm {-K|--checksig} [--nosignature] [--nodigest]
> PACKAGE_FILE ...
>
> INSTALLING, UPGRADING, AND REMOVING PACKAGES:
> rpm {-i|--install} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...
>
> rpm {-U|--upgrade} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...
>
> rpm {-F|--freshen} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...
>
> rpm {-e|--erase} [--allmatches] [--nodeps] [--noscripts]
> [--notriggers] [--repackage] [--test] PACKAGE_NAME ...
>
> MISCELLANEOUS:
> rpm {--initdb|--rebuilddb}
I suppose your advice is to go on those miscellaneous options ....
but yes, I did that already. rpm --initdb, and then rpm --rebuilddb
The problem I have is now, my system doesn't want to upgrade anymore. and
when I check the packages installed on my system, it keeps saying that
package xxxx is not installed, even if it is present.
It seems the newly created database doesn't include the whole packages
installed, but just some of them.
Francois
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