[Ambassadors] installation problem through yum
Ankur Sinha
sanjay.ankur at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 17:59:40 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 10:43 -0700, Rohit Gupta wrote:
> I recently installed fedora in our EE HOD (prof. SM) computer and We
> are having the following problem.
> I have connected the computer through local mirror and everything gets
> downloaded, dependencies resolved. It just cannot install the
> package.
>
> [root at satadal satadal]# yum install vlc
> 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
> [root at satadal satadal]#
>
> I also tried with the simple rpm file.
>
> [root at satadal Download]# rpm -Uvh fuse-sshfs-2.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm
> 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
> warning: fuse-sshfs-2.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
> NOKEY, key ID 4ebfc273
> 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 database in /var/lib/rpm
> [root at satadal Download]#
>
> Please add CC while replying as : rohit.kgec at gmail.com
>
> Regards:
> Rohit Gupta
> KGEC
>
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hi,
This is how i tackled it..
i deleted the __db.xxx files at /var/lib/rpm/ and ran rpm --rebuilddb
please refer man rpm for more details
regards,
Ankur
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