Rawhide 'yum --exclude=mod-perl\* update oops...

[Tom London]

whew.... recovered, I think, thanks to yum.

I collected the 'installed' packages from /var/cache/yum/development/packages,
and did 'rpm -ivh --nodeps --justdb .....', followed by 'yum update'.

I have no idea why the rpmdb got messed up, but I do notice that the
'new' one (/var/lib/rpm) is substantially smaller than the old one.

76864   rpm
130800  rpm.old

I think I will start replicating /var/lib /rpm....

tom


On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:57:04 -0700, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Understood.
> 
> Any idea how?  Haven't been doing anything different....
> 
> How to fix?
> 
> Tried 'rpmdb --rebuilddb' and 'rpmdb --initdb' both to no avial.
> 
> thanks,
>    tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 11:43:01 -0400, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 11:34, Tom London wrote:
> > > On current rawhide system, attempts to do today's updates
> > > via 'yum --exclude=mod_perl\* update produces endless
> > > copies of:
> > >
> > > rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
> > > error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument
> > > rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
> > > error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument
> > > rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
> > > error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument
> > > b4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument
> >
> > Your rpmdb is broken.
> >
> > -sv
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Tom London
> 



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Tom London