yum updates corrupting rpmdb

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 19:52 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
> 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?
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no but perhaps your /dev/sdb7 has some corruption itself.

You might try something like 'shutdown now -Fr' to force an fsck on
reboot

Craig