Bug 56910
| Summary: | RPM database is broken | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-12-02 11:05:42 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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If you want the problem fixed, you better mail me Packages :-) Remember I cannot guarantee anything. FWIW, many, many redcarpet users are experiencing these sorts of problems, I'm just the guy who gets to "fix" :-( I believe this problem is solved in private e-mail, please reopen if not. |
Description of Problem: it contains erros so that I cannot use gnorpm nor red carpet I tried the following and it didn't help: Here's what Jeff Johnson suggested when I had a similar problem: <quote> Save a copy of you database cd /var/lib tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb.tar.gz rpm Try doing db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages If that succeeds, an rpm --rebuilddb will regenerate the indices. If that fails, do cd /var/lib/rpm mv Packages Packages-ORIG db_dump Packages-ORIG | db_load Packages rpm --rebuilddb If that still fails, open a bugzilla report with a pointer (attachments wont work for >2Mb files) to your database and I'll take a look. </quote> Here is my original mail to the testers-list: --initdb also fails: [root@llephaane kenneth]# LANG=C rpm --initdb rpmdb: First overflow page 15 has a prev_pgno rpmdb: Overflow item incomplete on page 15 rpmdb: First overflow page 51 has a prev_pgno rpmdb: Overflow item incomplete on page 32 rpmdb: Overflow item incomplete on page 75 rpmdb: First overflow page 84 has a prev_pgno rpmdb: Overflow item incomplete on page 84 rpmdb: Overflow item incomplete on page 86 rpmdb: Overflow item incomplete on page 79 rpmdb: First overflow page 4048 has a prev_pgno rpmdb: Overflow item incomplete on page 4048 error: db3 error(-30985) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed tir, 2001-11-27 kl. 09:18 skrev Kenneth Rohde Christiansen: > What can I do to fix this error. It suddently just appeared, and now > most rpm tools doesn't work > > error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #958 retrieved, skipping. > > Kenneth If you want me mail you the Packages file, I can do so. I don't have a place to upload it Kenneth