rpm database corrupted after fedeup from 20 to 21

[Mick]

Hi Adam;
    thanks for trying.
It made no difference.

The message was:
[root at localhost ~]# rpm --rebuilddb
error: rpmdb: BDB0641 __db_meta_setup: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unexpected file type or format
error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - Invalid argument (22)

and looking at the file:
[root at localhost ~]# ls -l /var/lib/rpm/Packages
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 452214784 Dec 20 14:49 /var/lib/rpm/Packages

When I renamed Packages the rpmbuilddb error went away.
However
[root at localhost rpm]# yum update
CRITICAL:yum.main:

Error: rpmdb failed release provides. Try: rpm --rebuilddb

>From my Google-FU it seems that a full re-install (DVD) of F21 is the only cure.
I am trying to avoid that.

MickM



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On Tue, 12/23/14, Adam Williamson <adamwill at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: rpm database corrupted after fedeup from 20 to 21
 To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
 Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 12:13 PM
 
 On Tue, 2014-12-23 at
 08:06 -0800, Mick wrote:
 > Hi;
 >   I was running FC20 fully
 updated.
 > [root at localhost ~]# 
 fedup --network 21 --product=nonproduct
 >
 
 > Which worked.
 > Now
 when I try to 'yum update'
 > [root at localhost ~]# yum
 update
 > error: rpmdb: BDB0641
 __db_meta_setup: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: 
 > unexpected file type or format
 > error: cannot open Packages index using
 db5 - Invalid argument (22) 
 > error:
 cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
 > CRITICAL:yum.main:
 >
 
 > Error: rpmdb open failed
 > [root at localhost ~]#
 > 
 > Or rpm--rebuilddb
 > [root at localhost ~]# rpm
 --rebuilddb
 > error: rpmdb: BDB0641
 __db_meta_setup: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: 
 > unexpected file type or format
 > error: cannot open Packages index using
 db5 - Invalid argument (22) [
 > root at localhost ~]#
 > 
 > Any ideas?
 > Apart from this the system is working
 fine.
 > 
 
 Try:
 
 mv
 /var/lib/rpm/__db* /tmp
 rpm --rebuilddb
 
 if it doesn't help, move
 the __db* files back, you may want to keep 
 them in case some RPM guru can help you debug.
 Hope this helps!
 -- 
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