On Mon, Feb 23, 2009, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>Over the weekend my workstation (still on CentOS 3) started showing
>SMART errors, so we shut it down and moved everything onto a new
>drive. On reboot, the RPM database reports as corrupted and "rpm
>--rebuilddb" segmentation faults.
>
>Is there any reasonable way to recover from this, short of a complete
>reinstall? The machine is otherwise up though it's quite likely some
>files have been lost.
You may be able to get things going again with the bdb recover
script, /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_recover. I think this should be a
berkeley DB recovery routine that is specific to the version
being used by rpm. I have recovered the OpenPKG rpm database
using this technique using the standard bdb db_recover program.
If I am not mistaken, the appropriate command would be:
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_recover -h /var/lib/rpm
Bill
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