On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 15:44, Joseph Tate wrote: > This is a pretty big snafu. I'm not sure if it's RPM or Yum. There's a > bugzilla entry #88720 that seems to be related, so I'm pretty sure it's > RPM or db4 or something upstream. > > Here it is. > > After doing "yum install openldap-clients", a "rpm -qa | grep cyrus" > gave me the following: > > > cyrus-sasl-2.1.10-4 > > cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.10-4 > > error: db4 error(-30989) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: > > Requested page not found > > I tried a rpm --rebuilddb but got > > > error: db4 error(-30989) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: > > Requested page not found > > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy > > Every subsequent rpm --rebuild gives me the db4 error(16). > > The problem with this is that half my RPM database is gone. glibc, > bash, coreutils, redhat-release, tar, etc. All disappeared. > > I'm using a stock RH 9 with all updates installed. > > The clue was when I fired up a yum install nptl-devel, and it downloaded > a bunch of new headers: 127 to be exact. Only 163 remain in my RPM db. > > Anybody seen this? Anyone know how to fix it? > This is definitely an rpmdb corruption error. I'd be willing to wager it's related to locking. the error(16) is harmless - that's been reported and it's the equiv to running rmdir / which does nothing. the other error is a concern What things have you been installing/running that have acted on your rpmdb? Have you killed any processes that were actively manipulating your rpmdb? I hope Jeff Johnson, who lurks on this list, will make a comment about this. Also you may want to post the symptoms and lists of things that happened BEFORE this occurred to rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx or look through red hat's bugzilla. -sv
