yum db lossage

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On 7/10/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> > The yum db just killed itself on my x86_64 fc5 box.
> >
> >    [root at arbol ~]# yum list
> >    rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> >    error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run data
> >    error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30977)
> >
> > I then found some advice via google to rebuild the db so I did:
> >
> >       /bin/rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> >       rpm --initdb
> >       rpm --rebuilddb
> >         chown rpm:rpm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> >
> > That sort of got things hobbling along, but now livna doesn't work.
> >
> >      ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/Null/x86_64g/repodata/repomd.xml
> >
> > It looks like the "fc5" that goes between "fedora" and "x86_64" is
> > missing.  I take it some part of the db didn't get totally rebuilt?
> > Do I need to somehow stuff the "fc5" release name into the db by hand?
>
> Is your fedora-release package still OK?
>
> $ rpm -qi fedora-release
>
> Paul.
>
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I a afraid that after
    rpm --initdb
his rpm database is empty... From man rpm

   REBUILD DATABASE OPTIONS
       The general form of an rpm rebuild database command is

       rpm {--initdb|--rebuilddb} [-v] [--dbpath DIRECTORY] [--root DIRECTORY]

       Use --initdb to create a new database, use --rebuilddb to  rebuild  the
       database indices from the installed package headers.

The only way to get a list of installed packages I know of is
to look into the file /var/log/rpmpkgs , generated every night by cron.
Then OP could try restore his rpm database by hand, using --justdb
option of rpm command.

V.Rudenko
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