I upgraded from FC4 to FC5 yesterday, and its been one problem after another ever since. Today's new problem is that the RPM database just ate itself for no apparent reason. I ran an innocent "yum search sysfsutils" command, and after providing some relevant output, it finished off with: rpmdb: page 949: illegal page type or format rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: pgin failed for page 949 error: db4 error(-30981) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: db4 error(-30981) from dbcursor->c_close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: db4 error(-30981) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: db4 error(-30981) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: db4 error(-30981) from dbenv->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery Its been years since I've had any problems with rpm's database, so I had to google a bit, and found a few different suggestions to delete /var/lib/rpm/__db.* files and then run "rpm --rebuilddb". I did that, and got yet *more* errors like those above. So this time I deleted the same db files again, and this time ran "rpm --initdb" first, followed by "rpm --rebuilddb" and that seemed to complete without complaints. Unfortunately, something is still broken, as tons of RPMs that I know are installed, aren't getting returned as installed. Such as bash, rpm, fedora-release. There isn't anything else installed or running on this system that touches the RPM db (no yumex, apt, etc). I'm the only person with root. I'm at a complete loss right now as to why this is happening and more importantly how to recover. Help?! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
