rpm problem...

From: Mike Thatcher (mthatcher_at_charter.net)
Date: 01/31/05


Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:35:07 -0800

I've recently updated to FC 3. I'm getting the following problems from
rpm. How do I recover?

rpm -qa | grep samba
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30978)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

-- so I tried rebuild the db and get
[mike@rohan mike]$ rpm --rebuilddb
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index

-- so I tried to reinitialize the db
[mike@rohan mike]$ rpm --initdb
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30978)



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