On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Amitakhya Phukan wrote:
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Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
Hi;
I have a corrupt FC6 rpmdb after a timed-out yum update;
attempt to rebuild fails:
rpm --rebuilddb fails:
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30977)
How to repair the rpm db?
Thanks,
Ken Wolcott
Hi !
I face the same problem sometimes. I do rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*
after that yum update/install and then yum clean all
then the occurrence frequency of the above decreases.
the best way is pirut/pup i guess.
Actually this is a different problem.
There is a known bug where the rpm database gets locked and will not
release.
The quick solution is to reboot the machine and the lock will release. I
do not know how to get it to release "properly".
There is a bugzilla report on this, but it is too early in the morning for
me to look it up.
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