On Sat, 2017-06-10 at 10:22 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/10/17 09:12, stan wrote: > > There is an update (or test update) of libdb for F25 that, when > > installed, breaks the rpm database because it is incompatible. The dnf > > update completes, and then hangs (at least it did on my system). The > > fix is to remove the old rpm databases (this might be optional), and > > rebuild the rpm databases. > > > > rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00? # optional? > > rpm --rebuilddb > > > > I did a reboot to sync everything that uses libdb (anything that uses > > the Berkeley db). It might be possible just to restart affected > > applications if that isn't an option. That worked for my mail client > > before I rebooted. > > > FWIW, so far I've seen no ill effects from updating to > libdb-5.3.28-21.fc25. However, I should note that I had previously > updated to libdb-5.3.28-16 from testing also with no ill effects. On running 'dnf update' this morning I got a segfault from /usr/lib/libdb-5.3.so, which is part of libdb-5.3.28-21.fc25, so the problem is more than just an incompatible database. However removing the temp files and rebuilding the db seems to have cleared it. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
