On 4/16/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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?! > > -- > Do you have a backup of /var ?
