On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 20:47 -0700, Jim Cromie wrote:
> a recent large update has gone badly wrong,
> (the screen went into graphics mode, fixed by 'reset' cmd)
> and now I get this on a re-invoke sanity test.
>
>
> [jimc@harpo ~]$ sudo yum shell
> Password:
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> 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
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 85, in main
> base.getOptionsConfig(args)
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 199, in getOptionsConfig
> errorlevel=opts.errorlevel)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 125, in
> doConfigSetup
> self.conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 597, in
> readMainConfig
> yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot,
> startupconf.distroverpkg)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 656, in
> _getsysver
> idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
> [jimc@harpo ~]$ man rpm
>
> rebuilding the db didnt help..
>
> [jimc@harpo ~]$ sudo rpm --rebuilddb
> 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)
> [jimc@harpo ~]$
>
> using --initdb didnt work either.
>
> Oddly, basic rpm querying works..
>
> [jimc@harpo ~]$ rpm -q yum
> yum-3.0.1-2.fc6
>
>
> Any suggestions ?
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sudo rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__*
sudo rpm --rebuild
Craig
