RPM Database broken

[jludwig]

On Wednesday 19 October 2005 13:40, Francois Massonneau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I got a pb yesterday, when I wanted to run the usual "yum update" command.
>
> I got the following message :
>
> 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
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 27, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 75, in main
>     base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 170, in getOptionsConfig
>     self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root)
>   File "__init__.py", line 82, in doConfigSetup
>   File "config.py", line 271, in __init__
>   File "config.py", line 383, in _getsysver
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
>
> Then I tried to delete the /var/lib/rpm/__db.* files, and reran the
> command :
> rpm -vv --rebuilddb
>
> Same result :-(  :
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> erreur: erreur db4(-30977) de dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
> database recovery
> erreur: ne peut ouvrir l'index Packages en utilisant db3 -  (-30977)
>
> I deleted again the __db.* files and reran the same command.
> This time, no more error messages.
> It seemed it was ok, but nope ;-(
>
> I can't any longer update a package, nor see the packages I installed a
> while
> ago.
> It seems that just a few packages are in the newly created (or repaired)
> database, but not all packages installed by me, since I put that FC4 on my
> system.
>
> Is there a way to rebuild the database with all the packages installed on
> that
> computer, if so, how, and get a system that I can update as I want.
>
> Thank you so much for you help, because I'm totally lost. Francois
> --

>From man rpm;

RPM(8)                                Red Hat Linux                               
RPM(8)

NAME
       rpm - RPM Package Manager

SYNOPSIS
   QUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES:
       rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]

       rpm {-V|--verify} [select-options] [verify-options]

       rpm --import PUBKEY ...

       rpm {-K|--checksig} [--nosignature] [--nodigest]
           PACKAGE_FILE ...

   INSTALLING, UPGRADING, AND REMOVING PACKAGES:
       rpm {-i|--install} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...

       rpm {-U|--upgrade} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...

       rpm {-F|--freshen} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...

       rpm {-e|--erase} [--allmatches] [--nodeps] [--noscripts]
           [--notriggers] [--repackage] [--test] PACKAGE_NAME ...

   MISCELLANEOUS:
       rpm {--initdb|--rebuilddb}