yum db lossage

[Paul Howarth]

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> The yum db just killed itself on my x86_64 fc5 box.
> 
>    [root at arbol ~]# yum list
>    rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
>    error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run data
>    error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30977)
> 
> I then found some advice via google to rebuild the db so I did:
> 
> 	/bin/rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> 	rpm --initdb
> 	rpm --rebuilddb
>         chown rpm:rpm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> 
> That sort of got things hobbling along, but now livna doesn't work.
> 
>      ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/Null/x86_64g/repodata/repomd.xml
> 
> It looks like the "fc5" that goes between "fedora" and "x86_64" is
> missing.  I take it some part of the db didn't get totally rebuilt?
> Do I need to somehow stuff the "fc5" release name into the db by hand?

Is your fedora-release package still OK?

$ rpm -qi fedora-release

Paul.