On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:29:42AM +0200, Erwin Rol wrote: > This morning i tried to do a yum update and got an error, when trying a > rpm -qa i got the following error; > > [root@xpc erwin]# rpm -qa > rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: Invalid hash meta page 0 > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > I have no idea how this happened, have others seen this problem I also have ahd issues with rpm database corruption, but I don't know what caused it nor how to reproduce it. sometimes there is a segfault when running yum, which is certainly in the rpmlib, and I guess it is what screews things, and also sometimes rpm never finish. > recently? And more important how can it be fixed? What I do is rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages rpm --rebuilddb -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
