Bug 100772
| Summary: | corrupt rpm database | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Alan Henderson <alan.henderson> | ||||
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 9 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2003-07-29 13:03:25 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 93140 [details]
Output from running "rpm -vv -rebuilddb"
Doing
grep glibc output
indicates that your database does not have glibc installed.
Reinstall the glibc package so that dependencies can be found.
Harder to tell why db_verify is unhappy, but probably because
db-4.0.14 is not worward compatible with db-4.1.25.
Do instead
cd /var/lib/rpm
rm -f __db*
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages
The command /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages does not yield any warning or error messages which implies that the database looks OK. Somehow a large percentage of the database records has disapeared. I have reinstalled some things (which now appear back in the rpm database) but some packages have so many dependencies that I just use the --nodeps switch. The original question of why more than half of my database contents disapeared remains a mystery. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Many installed packages are not recogised and incorrect dependencies are displayed when installing a package. I have tried removing the stale locks and rebuilding the rpm database. But rm /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm -vv --rebuilddb This seems to run ok (see attachment) take this installed package for example:- henderson 8# rpm -ivh --test mp3blaster-3.1.3-1.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: ld-linux.so.2 is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 libc.so.6 is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 libm.so.6 is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 libpthread.so.0 is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by mp3blaster-3.1.3-1 These items are definietly installed henderson 9# locate libc.so.6 /lib/i686/libc.so.6 /lib/tls/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6 I get a error checking the package database henderson 15# db_verify Packages db_verify: region error detected; run recovery. db_verify: Old or incorrect DB version; extraneous errors may result db_verify: DB->verify: Packages: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm 4.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to install a package 2. get overwhelming dependency errors 3. Additional info: