Hi;<br><br> I had already rebooted and the error I reported still exists prior to sending this email. I subsequently deleted the rpm db files and am now doing the yum update.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Ken<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 1/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">alan</b> <<a href="mailto:alan@clueserver.org">alan@clueserver.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Amitakhya Phukan wrote:<br><br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>> Hash: SHA1<br>><br>> Kenneth Wolcott wrote:<br>>> Hi;<br>>><br>>> I have a corrupt FC6 rpmdb after a timed-out yum update;
<br>>><br>>> attempt to rebuild fails:<br>>><br>>> rpm --rebuilddb fails:<br>>><br>>> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery<br>>> error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
<br>>> error, run database recovery<br>>> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30977)<br>>><br>>> How to repair the rpm db?<br>>><br>>> Thanks,<br>>> Ken Wolcott<br>>
<br>> Hi !<br>><br>> I face the same problem sometimes. I do rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*<br>><br>> after that yum update/install and then yum clean all<br>><br>> then the occurrence frequency of the above decreases.
<br>><br>> the best way is pirut/pup i guess.<br><br>Actually this is a different problem.<br><br>There is a known bug where the rpm database gets locked and will not<br>release.<br><br>The quick solution is to reboot the machine and the lock will release. I
<br>do not know how to get it to release "properly".<br><br>There is a bugzilla report on this, but it is too early in the morning for<br>me to look it up.<br><br>--<br>"Invoking the supernatural can explain anything, and hence explains nothing."
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