On 4/16/06, Randy Wyatt <rwwyatt01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ? No, I don't have any backups yet. This is a laptop, and unfortunately pcmcia wifi is broken too: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-April/msg03734.html -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
