On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 19:52 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > This is the second update in as many days that has resulted in a > corrupted rpm database for me. I was able to fix yesterday's with a > --rebuilddb and 'yum clean all' but before I go through that little > exercise again, is anyone else seeing problems? Any suggestions how to > debug this? > > # yum update > ( lists a dozen or so packages to update, including firefox... > ...I say 'y'... > ...10 minutes later the terminal history is filled with: > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery > > and yum won't die except by 'kill -9' > > # rpm -qa > 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) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > Not out of space... > # df /var/lib/rpm > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb7 497829 205804 266323 44% /var > > and there are no kernel disk error messages. > > Is there some "run recovery" that's different than --rebuilddb? ---- no but perhaps your /dev/sdb7 has some corruption itself. You might try something like 'shutdown now -Fr' to force an fsck on reboot Craig
