Bug 77118

Summary:	After install and running up2date, the /var/lib/rpm/Packages file is now claimed to be in an unexpected file type
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael Sinz <msinz>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Michael Sinz 2002-11-01 12:53:44 UTC

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Description of problem:
After the base install I did an up2date.  Everything worked as expected.

Today, I tried running up2date and it failed.  Running rpm with --rebuilddb
option shows the following error:

rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unexpected file type or format
error: cannot open Packages index

I do not know how to recover and would prefer not to need to reinstall the
system again.

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


How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:

I have not spent the time trying to reproduce as I was working on getting a disk
ready for some of my work projects.

The one other item is that I do have XFS kernel installed since I am doing
things with XFS.

I am currently stuck as I can not load my RPMs on the system, which is part of
what I am testing right now.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-11-01 14:16:20 UTC

If the file type of Packages has changed, you should
look carefully at your disk parameters. It's very unlikely
that this happened through program usage, much more likely
that you have file system or disk corruption.