Bug 98517

Summary:	rpm database verification failed
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Emde <thomas.emde>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Thomas Emde 2003-07-03 06:04:10 UTC

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Description of problem:
After trying to install a self-built package, the rpm database seems to be 
corrupted. rpm -q tells that the package is not installed, rpm -Uvh <package> 
tells the following:
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
package <package> is already installed
rpmdb: Overflow item incomplete on page 3492
error: db4 error(-30979) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification 
failed

rpm --rebuilddb results in a segmentation fault.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.0.4-7x.18

How reproducible:
Always

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Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-07-03 14:57:24 UTC

The following will verify the problem (you need db4-utils):

    db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages

Fix is to dump and reload Packages, then rebuild the indices

    cd /var/lib/rpm
    mv Packages Packages-ORIG
    db_dump Packages-ORIG | db_load Packages

    rpm --rebuilddb -vv

Reopen if above does not solve the problem.