Bug 90589

Summary: RPM Database corruption after upgrade
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Mike H. <pyrotek98>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Mike H. 2003-05-09 22:45:57 UTC
Description of problem:
Today I upgrade from rh8 and rh9 and in the process my rpm database has become 
corrupted. If I try to remove packages or install packages, sometimes I get an 
rpm corruption error.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm 4.2


How reproducible: often 


Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -ivh package
2.
3.
    
Actual results: corruption error


Expected results: package to install or remove


Additional info:[root@dhcp-1577-8 rpms]
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
db_verify: Page 387: bad page number 1792
db_verify: Page 387: invalid prev_pgno 17152
db_verify: page 388: illegal page type or format
db_verify: PANIC: Invalid argument
db_verify: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: pgin failed for page 388
db_verify: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_verify: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_verify: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_verify: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_verify: DB->verify: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database 
verification failed
db_verify: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_verify: fatal region error detected; run recovery
db_verify: dbenv->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
[root@dhcp-1577-8 rpms]# rpm --rebuilddb
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      64 blob size(6428): BAD, 8 + 16 * il
(1946186351) + dl(1869873266)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      61 region trailer: BAD, tag 35378 
type 21234358 offset -2025055918 count 574090562
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      63 blob size(8984): BAD, 8 + 16 * il
(1946186351) + dl(1869873266)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      65 blob size(9252): BAD, 8 + 16 * il
(1946186351) + dl(1869873266)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      67 blob size(12852): BAD, 8 + 16 * 
il(1946186351) + dl(1869873266)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      62 blob size(7748): BAD, 8 + 16 * il
(1375731742) + dl(1375731743)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      66 blob size(7808): BAD, 8 + 16 * il
(1946186351) + dl(1869873266)
error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-05-09 23:15:15 UTC
Use the procedure in duplicated bug to fix.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90560 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:52:57 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.