-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. regards, amit. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFtOheDlUL5E3antERAp+xAKCWNqtTXudO5qdSk6BxT9MvFl8eygCeNM1h 76kuZF1+Bc9j2DATLzEvc/s= =vuDB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----