Bug 8642

Summary:	Corrupt RPM database can't be repaired (can't rebuilddb)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Andrew Pam <xanni>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1
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Description Andrew Pam 2000-01-20 01:49:52 UTC

I have had RPM databases become corrupted since RH 4.0.  It is not possible
to repair these problems, which can prevent package upgrades and
installations, and the problems are carried over into OS upgrades.
I presently have a RHL 6.1 system running rpm 3.0.3 with a corrupt
database, and since I cannot even --rebuilddb I will probably not be able
to upgrade this system to the next major version of rpm.

On this machine, rpm --rebuilddb (as root) fails with:

# rpm --rebuilddb
error getting record plhyph.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record pt8hyph.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record sehyph.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record picmore.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record pictex.sty from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record pictexwd.sty from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record prepictex.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record dvipsone.con from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record multido.sty from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record textures.con from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record vtex.con from /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record xydvidrv.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record xyps-ps.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record xyps.tex from /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record xyv2.tex from /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record xyweb.tex from /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record story.tex from /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record testfont.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record bplain.ini from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record mtplainx.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record mtplus.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record stanacce.tex from
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record mktex.opt from /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record mktexdir from /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
error getting record mktexnam from /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.840/fileindex.rpm
cannot add record originally at 11186840
failed to rebuild database; original database remains in place

Comment 1 Andrew Pam 2000-01-20 02:09:59 UTC

rpm doesn't report out of disk space.