rpm database recovery

[atulyamahajan]

Hi,

I am running fedora core 2. I just installed it and ran the yum program to update the softwares.
Now midway it kindof got stuck and i terminated the program.
Now when i try to run yum it says that the database is ciorrupted and needs ro be recovered.

Error message like ->
ror: error(-3097 getting "system-config-display.mo" records from Basenames index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-3097 from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: error(-3097 getting "system-config-display.mo" records from Basenames index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-3097 from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: error(-3097 getting "system-config-display.mo" records from Basenames index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-3097 from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: error(-3097 getting "system-config-display.mo" records from Basenames index
************************************************** *****

I tried running the following commands to solve this problem ->

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
#db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
#rpm --rebuilddb

But the third command again gives an error ->

[root@localhost root]# rpm -rebuilddb
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-3097 from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index
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SOS !!!!
Can anybody help out ??


Regards,
Atulya

[atulyamahajan]

Hi Guys,

Got the solution to the problem..

the commands

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
#db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
#rpm --rebuilddb

indeed do the trick.
What i was doing wrong was i didnt realise that there were 2 underscores in _ _ db*.
My bad !!

Anyway,got to learnt another feature of linux through this.

Thanks and regards
Atulya

[Redman]

Anyway,got to learnt another feature of linux through this.

Good work!
Try that with Windows

[Dooghy]

Man, this post saved my computer from being smashed to the ground
I thought I'm doing something wrong during updates and so on ...

Still, 'cause I'm a newbie in Linux, would someone tell me what was the cause of error? I would like to know more on how Suse manages updates. I mean, why this sequence of commands solved the problem ...

[devils casper]

those commands removed rpm database and rebuild new. this problem pops up when rpm database gets corrupted coz of broken updates and unmet dependencies.

[Dooghy]

Ok, that makes sense. So all that commands' purpose was to reset the "bad history" for rpm installations. Indeed I had some problems installing the drivers for my printer. So from what you're saying, this could be the reason for having a corrupted rpm database. Am I getting this right?

[helpmeforlinux]

Hi Guys,

Got the solution to the problem..

the commands

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
#db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
#rpm --rebuilddb

indeed do the trick.
What i was doing wrong was i didnt realise that there were 2 underscores in _ _ db*.
My bad !!

Anyway,got to learnt another feature of linux through this.

Thanks and regards
Atulya

Hi Atulya i am also facing same problem and i did rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
then on next line i did db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
then it gave the error like
bash: db_verify: command not found

i am using fc6. Any idea , suggestion.

[devils casper]

Hi helpmeforlinux !

This thread is pretty old. I would suggest you to start a new thread and explain your problem in detail there only.
Sorry for inconvenience.
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