Bug 68013

Summary:	rpm database corrupt
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <jim>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Need Real Name 2002-07-05 09:46:38 UTC

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Description of problem:
The rpm database is corrupt.  --rebuilddb gives a segmentation fault.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
/var/lib/rpm directory available as http://www.mcdee.net/rpm.tar.gz



Additional info:

Also attempted db_dump | db_load as per rpm mailing list, same result.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-07-05 19:24:09 UTC

Hmmm, here's what I see:
 bash$ rpm -qa | grep ximian | wc
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #35 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #336 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #488 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #174 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #297 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #429 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #225 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #555 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #602 retrieved, skipping.
    157     157    4565
You might want to complain to ximian ...

Fix in a moment ...

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2002-07-05 19:49:55 UTC

OK, I've deleted damaged header instances
        593, 305, 306, 732, 733, 734, 735,
and after the first --rebuilddb
        35, 336, 488, 174, 297, 429, 225, 555, 602,
sufficient to do a rpm --rebuilddb cleanly.

A fixed copy of your rpm/Packages is at
	ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/rpmdb-68013-FIX.tar.gz

Download and install by doing (as root)
	cd /var/lib
	mv rpm/Packages rpm/Packages-ORIG
	tar xzvf rpmdb-68013-FIX.tar.gz
	rpm --rebuilddb -vv
and verify the fix by doing
	rpm -qa