I have a corrupt FC6 rpmdb after a timed-out yum update; rpm --rebuilddb fails

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  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.

Thanks,
Ken

On 1/22/07, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Amitakhya Phukan wrote:
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> > Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> >> Hi;
> >>
> >>   I have a corrupt FC6 rpmdb after a timed-out yum update;
> >>
> >>   attempt to rebuild fails:
> >>
> >> rpm --rebuilddb fails:
> >>
> >> 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)
> >>
> >> How to repair the rpm db?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ken Wolcott
> >
> > Hi !
> >
> > I face the same problem sometimes. I do rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> >
> > after that yum update/install and then yum clean all
> >
> > then the occurrence frequency of the above decreases.
> >
> > the best way is pirut/pup i guess.
>
> Actually this is a different problem.
>
> There is a known bug where the rpm database gets locked and will not
> release.
>
> The quick solution is to reboot the machine and the lock will release.  I
> do not know how to get it to release "properly".
>
> There is a bugzilla report on this, but it is too early in the morning for
> me to look it up.
>
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