How to do a rpm database recovery.

[Jim Cornette]

Erik Grootjans wrote:
> Yum dit install updates.
> But the next day, i was notified off exact the same amound of updates.
> I looked carefully when updating;
> 
> After downloading when there is a bar with configuring packages;
> the bar disapeered and no messages completed installating packages came
> up.
> 
> So i tryed to do it with updating packages - the same
> I tryed in a terminal window with rpm - i get:
> 
> PANIC fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error (-30977) from dbenv -> open: DB_RUNRECOVERY;
> Fatal error, run database recovery
> Cannot open Packages database in /usr/lib/rpm.
> 
> Question: How do i run a rpm-database recovery ???
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> Erik
> 

I've experienced this type of problem once with yum. It completed the 
install and afterward showed the same packages available. This was with 
test. I could not reproduce the failure though.

I did not see database corruption though with this error.

Message with problem:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-January/msg00133.html

Bug report opened up, then closed since problem was one time incident.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222400

Others gave clues to how to repair the rpm database.

Jim
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