On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 21:15 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Marc M writes: > > > 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 > > error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, > > run database recovery > > Your rpm database is corrupted. > > Try "rpm --rebuilddb". > > If this doesn't work, you're boned. In order to possibly prevent yourself from getting further boned by the database corruption, you might try following these instructions instead http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ irc.freenode.net has an #rpm support channel, which is very very helpful, and has saved me much grief in the past.
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