[fedora-india] Re: [Ambassadors] installation problem through yum

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

Please indicate on the subject line that you are cross posting. I took
out all the other lists in this reply.

However unlikely it appears that you need to rebuild the rpm database.
That should work out, let the list know how it went.

~sankarshan

On 3/31/09, Rohit Gupta <rohit.kgec at gmail.com> 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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