On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/13/2011 01:30 AM, Bojan Smojver wrote: >> This is probably not worthy of a bug report, but may still be useful to >> confirm a problem that someone else may have experienced. >> >> I resurrected an old notebook (HP Pavilion ZE4201) to test some stuff >> under relatively low memory conditions (768 MB on the box). Installed >> F-16 Beta i686 onto it with no trouble whatsoever. >> >> On first boot, went to update the system, only to get RPM errors of >> database in /var/lib/rpm needing recovery. The recovery (db_recover >> -h /var/lib/rpm) completely shot the database and after running rpm >> --rebuilddb the system was left in a state where vast number of packages >> are not being reported (including rpm itself). Out of about 1,400 >> packages, only 400 were left in the DB. > > In case you (or anybody else for that matter) manage to reproduce this, > please take a copy of the exact error messages and backup /var/lib/rpm > contents before attempting any kind of recovery. "It gave a bunch of > errors and recovery blew it up" is not sufficient information to attempt > analyzing what went wrong. I've had a couple of issues with rpm crashing and segfaulting, on reboot it all seems to be OK, unfortunately I never managed to catch the errors. Its happened on two different devices, if it happens again I'll get a copy one way or the other Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
