On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 09:53 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > 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. I never seen RPM hang on this machine, but i did see it happen on my dual core machine. > > 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 Yeah i did this minus the db_verify part. One silly question, didn't rpm start using sqlite? But the databases are still BDB? - Erwin -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
