RPM Database broken

[Gilboa Davara]

First, please do not repost your problem repeatedly.
While I understand that you are in a jam, this is no reason to report
the same message for the 4'th time. now.

Second, can you get a list of what you installed by using rpm -qa and/or
kickstart file?

Gilboa


On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 10:30 +0200, 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
> 
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