rpm db problem
Erwin Rol
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Thu Aug 31 08:08:32 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 09:53 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:29:42AM +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > This morning i tried to do a yum update and got an error, when trying a
> > rpm -qa i got the following error;
> >
> > [root at xpc erwin]# rpm -qa
> > rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: Invalid hash meta page 0
> > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
> > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> >
> > I have no idea how this happened, have others seen this problem
>
> I also have ahd issues with rpm database corruption, but I don't know
> what caused it nor how to reproduce it. sometimes there is a segfault
> when running yum, which is certainly in the rpmlib, and I guess it is
> what screews things, and also sometimes rpm never finish.
I never seen RPM hang on this machine, but i did see it happen on my
dual core machine.
> > recently? And more important how can it be fixed?
>
> What I do is
>
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> rpm --rebuilddb
Yeah i did this minus the db_verify part.
One silly question, didn't rpm start using sqlite? But the databases
are still BDB?
- Erwin
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