Help with RPM rebuilddb

[Myles Green]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:59:12 -0700
oldman <talbotscott at cox.net> wrote:

> Hello all
> 
>     After updating this morning, I checked the availability of orca with
> a yum list updates.  For some reason Yum hung and 1/2 hour later it was
> still running with no progress being reported at the terminal.
> 
>     I was able to kill the process (holding my breath and crossing the
> fingers) by logging in as root at a tty and issuing the appropriate
> commands.  Thought I was good to go until I performed the yum update of
> orca and though it did update, it immediately gave me 10 pages of
> garbage on the screen, followed by some error messages:
> 
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30977) from db->sync: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
> database recovery
> 
> I attempted to `rpm --rebuilddb` but received:
> 
> 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)
> 
> I got similar errors with --initdb (as expected, but I had to try)
> 
> 
>     I googled the error messages and got (as expected) a similar account
> on suse, but the suggestions offered, included the use of commands I am
> unfamiliar with.
> 
> Any ideas of a safe way to get rpm and yum working again?
> 
> 
> Scott
 
I ran into this a while back after interrupting yum. My solution was to
delete the rpm db and the re-run rpm --rebuilddb. It Worked For Me(tm),
YMMV and if it breaks you get to keep all the pieces :-)

HTH, Myles
-- 
The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them
is a match.
		-- Will Rogers
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