Marc M wrote:
> What I would really like to understand is why this happenned. Any
> pointers?
>
> [root@localhost ~]# yum update
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
try running "rpmdb --rebuilddb".
> 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 29, in ?
> yummain.main (sys.argv[1:])
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main
> base.getOptionsConfig(args)
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 177, in getOptionsConfig
> self.doConfigSetup (fn=opts.conffile, root=root)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 102, in
> doConfigSetup
> self.conf = config.readMainConfig(fn, root)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 589, in
> readMainConfig
> vars['releasever'] = _getsysver(earlyconf.installroot,
> earlyconf.distroverpkg)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 689, in
> _getsysver
> idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
>
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