On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 11:22 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 08:17 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > In the process of getting Fedora 10 up and running on a x86_64 machine > > I've totally messed up yum and am getting this error: > > > > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery > > > > How do I run "recovery" > # rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.* # Note double "_" characters > # rpm --rebuilddb OK, I did that without incident. But then.. [33] /home/magnusg $ yum install yumex Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30975) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 192, in _getConfig self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 758, in readMainConfig yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 828, in _getsysver idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg) TypeError: rpmdb open failed -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines