<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I did the same procedure as I'd do with M$... 1) Reboot the system 2) ftp download.fedora.redhat.com 3) download glibc* 4) rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps glibc-comm* (yeah... after a reboot rpm works) 5) rm glibc-comm* && rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps glibc* And everything comes back to life... Paul Nasrat escreveu: <blockquote cite="mid1141794146.2550.2.camel@enki.eridu" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:24 -0300, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">After update done 00:23 08/Mar/2006 the following happened (so I can't even get version for packages...): [root@terra ~]# yum update 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 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> rpm issue, what steps did you take up to that point? If you experienced any failures what were they? Please back up your rpmdb (/var/lib/rpm) and create a bugzilla, preferably with the history above. Paul </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>