On 06/25/2010 11:37 AM, Craig White was caught red-handed while writing:: > On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 11:11 -0700, JD wrote: > >> On 06/25/2010 11:04 AM, stan was caught red-handed while writing:: >> >>> rpm --rebuilddb >>> >>> >> Thank you stan. I tried it: >> $ sudo rpm --rebuilddb >> rpmdb: Thread/process 7604/3079239360 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB >> library >> error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal >> error, run database recovery >> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974) >> >> This is not the first time it has happened. >> I have been using fedora since FC6. This >> corruption (due to killing yum) has happened >> to me on at least 3 occasions. >> >> I see it as a big deficiency that killing an app >> should incur such a devastating damage to it's database. >> > ---- > maybe you shouldn't kill it while it is running. > > Problem doesn't appear to be yum but your Packages database which is > actually maintained by rpm. Yum doesn't write to those files. > > Try this... > > ps aux|grep rpm > ps aux|grep yum > > and make sure that no yum or rpm processes are currently running > > Once you have determined that no yum or rpm processes are still > running... > > rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* > > and delete them > > Then, try the rebuild command... > > rpm --rebuilddb > > Craig > Thank you craig. It is rebuilding right now. I found similar solution at http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2007/10/repair-corrupt-rpm-database.html Cheers, JD -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
