On Thu, 19 May 2011, Jeff Johnson wrote:
To: Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Old RPM database out of sync with installed packages
On May 19, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND:
> Requested page not found
A Berkeley DB is organized into pages, and the pages are cached
in /var/lib/rpm/__db* files.
SO nuke those files
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
and run "rpm -qa" as root (non-root can't create these files
and does something different) and the __db* files will be recreated.
> If I do
>
> #rpm -vv -Va I get tons of lines like this:
>
> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Depends create mode=0x0
> error: rpmdb: damaged header #1222 retrieved -- skipping.
> error: rpmdb: damaged header #1222 retrieved -- skipping.
> error: rpmdb: damaged header #1222 retrieved -- skipping.
> error: rpmdb: damaged header #1222 retrieved -- skipping.
>
OK, so your backup has a damaged header.
Well I think it's all OK now Jeff. Many thanks for pointing
me in the right direction to get this sorted.
I have rebuilt my yum cache, and also cleared my Smart
Package Manager configuration, reinstalled the channels and
updated my Smart channels. Then shut down Smart and backed
up whats under /var/lib/smart/
So it looks like everything is back in sync again.
One thing I notice was there were 3 processes called rpmv
running, that consumed alot of CPU time and memory. Each one
was using 265MB each.
It seems these were from the rpm -Va command?
So I had to kill those and I got the system freed up after
that.
Thanks again for all your help on this Jeff.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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