rpmdb error help needed

[Erwin Rol]

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

- Erwin