yum updates corrupting rpmdb
This is the second update in as many days that has resulted in a
corrupted rpm database for me. I was able to fix yesterday's with a
--rebuilddb and 'yum clean all' but before I go through that little
exercise again, is anyone else seeing problems? Any suggestions how to
debug this?
# yum update
( lists a dozen or so packages to update, including firefox...
...I say 'y'...
...10 minutes later the terminal history is filled with:
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
and yum won't die except by 'kill -9'
# rpm -qa
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)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Not out of space...
# df /var/lib/rpm
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb7 497829 205804 266323 44% /var
and there are no kernel disk error messages.
Is there some "run recovery" that's different than --rebuilddb?
<Joe