what was the fix for a broken repo?

Per Bothner per at bothner.com
Thu Apr 16 05:41:26 UTC 2009


This may be because I power-cycled my laptop earlier.
But this keep happening - it seems a pretty serious bug when the package
manager can get into this state and not be able to recover from it.
(And this was even after a fresj reboot.)

$ sudo yum clean
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
rpmdb: Thread/process 3669/3085842112 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB 
library
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal 
error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
     yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main
     errcode = main(args)
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main
     base.getOptionsConfig(args)
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig
     self.conf
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 649, in 
<lambda>
     conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 239, in 
_getConfig
     self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 794, in 
readMainConfig
     yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, 
startupconf.distroverpkg)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 867, in 
_getsysver
     idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed

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	--Per Bothner
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