On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:17 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > ... > > almost sounds like an incomplete upgrade occurred, perhaps with the > > wrong version of berkley-db4 or python installed. > > > > Did you ever go through things like installing yum-tools and > > package-cleanup? > > Hey, thanks for the ideas! > > "rpm -V db4" was clean--something else I should check? > > I always assumed that if "rpm --rebuilddb" succeeded, then the database > should be ok. But it looks like my assumption was wrong: > > # cd /var/lib/rpm/ > # /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages > # /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Requirename > db_verify: Page 223: bad prev_pgno 0 on overflow page (should be 119) > db_verify: Page 223: overflow item incomplete > db_verify: Requirename: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed > # for f in *; do echo "$f"; /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify $f; done > Basenames > Conflictname > Dirnames > db_verify: Page 1982: bad page number 191 > db_verify: Dirnames: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed > Filemd5s > db_verify: Page 4635: bad page number 89 > db_verify: Filemd5s: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed > Group > db_verify: Page 18: overflow page of invalid type 2 > db_verify: Group: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed > Installtid > Name > Packages > Providename > db_verify: Page 342: bad page number 105 > db_verify: Providename: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed > Provideversion > db_verify: Page 110: bad prev_pgno 0 on overflow page (should be 112) > db_verify: Page 110: overflow item incomplete > db_verify: Provideversion: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed > Pubkeys > Requirename > db_verify: Page 223: bad prev_pgno 0 on overflow page (should be 119) > db_verify: Page 223: overflow item incomplete > db_verify: Requirename: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed > Requireversion > db_verify: Page 191: partially zeroed page > db_verify: Requireversion: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed > Sha1header > Sigmd5 > db_verify: Page 32: bad page number 223 > db_verify: Page 32: invalid prev_pgno 119 > db_verify: Sigmd5: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed > Triggername > > I found an old (2003) suggestion for rebuilding the Packages db: > > mv Packages Packages-ORIG > > /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_dump Packages-ORIG | > > /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_load Packages > > Running that on each db... > # for f in Requireversion Provideversion Providename Group Filemd5s > Dirnames; do echo "$f"; mv "$f" "$f.orig" && /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_dump > "$f.orig" | /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_load "$f"; done > Requireversion > db_load: Transactional Data Store incompatible with environment > Provideversion > db_load: Transactional Data Store incompatible with environment > Providename > db_load: Transactional Data Store incompatible with environment > Group > db_load: Transactional Data Store incompatible with environment > Filemd5s > db_load: Transactional Data Store incompatible with environment > Dirnames > db_load: Transactional Data Store incompatible with environment > > I have no idea what that message means, but it doesn't mean the command > failed, apparently: > > # for f in `ls | grep -v '\.'`; do echo "$f"; /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify > $f; done > Basenames > Conflictname > Dirnames > Filemd5s > Group > Installtid > Name > Packages > Providename > Provideversion > Pubkeys > Requirename > Requireversion > Sha1header > Sigmd5 > Triggername > > Looks clean now. > > I'm running a "rpm -Va" just now, and so far it looks reasonable, so > maybe the problem is done now. > > I have no idea what I'm doing here, and I still don't understand if > "--rebuilddb" was missing something, or what. > > Clues welcomed. > > PS: Oops. No, now the "rpm -Va" is finding stuff that looks like some > parts of the last update that failed were partially installed. Maybe I > need to go back and repeat the latest package installs to make sure > everything is clean. > > Maybe time to punt and re-install f8. ---- see this... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq see point #4 'Tips' about yum-utils/package-cleanup Craig
