rpmdb error help needed

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:49 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 10:17 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
> > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> > error: db4 error(-30977) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
> > run database recovery
> > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> > error: db4 error(-30977) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
> > run database recovery
> > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> > error: db4 error(-30977) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
> > run database recovery
> > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> > error: db4 error(-30977) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
> > run database recovery
> > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> > error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
> > error, run database recovery
> > 
> > I even removed all /var/lib/rpm/__* files and tried to install any rpm
> > but same errors i got when i executed following command

> On my Dual Core laptop I see those problems a _lot_, almost every second
> time I do an update. I would be interested to hear if you are using an
> dual core or SMP machine?

> I always could fix it by removing the /var/lib/rpm/__* files and than
> run rpm --rebuilddb

	I can't believe your timing.  I just slammed smack into this when I ran
an update this morning.  I was within minutes of rebuilding the whole
system from scratch (it is just a test system anyways) when I read your
message.  That worked.  Saved me a couple of hours rebuild.

	Point on the curve - I noticed a hung rpmq process running this
morning.  Not sure if it was a cause of the problem or an effect of the
problem.

	Yes - This was on an SMP machine.  I had never run into that before.
Could not --rebuilddb or --initdb or anything until I removed those __*
files.  Then --rebuilddb recovered the system.  Many thanks!

> - Erwin

	Mike
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