Also, I got rpm to work for root on kernel 2.5.68 by creating
/etc/rpm/macros(renaming etc/macros.specspo - whatś that anyway?) and
adding
%__dbi_cdb create cdb mpool mp_mmapsize=16Mb mp_size=1Mb private
AS Jeff Johnson suggested. Otherwise no go.
On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 03:05, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> Hello, Everyone :)
> When I attempt to rebuild my corrupted RPM database, following the
> following instructions that I got off the Red Hat 8 list:
>
> To free a stuck database;
> 1. Make sure there are no processes trying to access the rpm database
> (such as rpm, up2date, redhat-config-packages)
> 2. Remove the rpm lock files, rm /var/lib/rpm/__db* .
> Rebooting will do stages 1. & 2. automatically (2. is done in the
> startup
> scripts). In many cases these are enough to free the stuck database. If
> there are still problems;
> 3. Take a safety copy of the database, in case things go wrong. (eg.
> cp -r /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm.copy ).
> 4. Try rebuilding the database (from the Packages data file) by running
> rpm --rebuilddb .
> If the database still doesn't work, and the db4-utils package was
> installed;
> 5. Run cd /var/lib/rpm; db_verify Packages . This checks the underlying
> data format of this file.
> 6. If there are errors, you can rebuild the Packages file from the good
> records by running
> cp Packages Packages.orig; db_dump Packages.orig | db_load Packages
> and repeat step 4.
> There is a good reference for this procedure at
> http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/
>
> Michael Young
>
> I get the following result when I do step 6 (I'm omitting step five from
> this message, as it just proved that my RPM db was hosed:
> db_dump: region error detected; run recovery.
> db_dump: Packages-ORIG: unsupported hash version: 8
> db_dump: open: Packages-ORIG: Invalid argument
>
> I also tried the instructions, almost the same as the above
> instructions, that Jeff Johnson from Red Hat gave:
> http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/
>
> A quick question: I hear a lot about upgrading to the version of RPM
> that is at people.redhat.com/jbj/test-4.1
> Would upgrading have anything to do with reparing my database? Wouldn't
> I just have a new version of RPM, but with a corrupt database?
>
> Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated :)
> Steven P. Ulrick
>
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