From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Presently, I am getting # rpm -q kernel rpm package kernel is not installed package rpm is not installed or more generally: # rpm -qa|wc -l 101 which should be compared with # ls /usr/share/doc/|wc -l 436 This happened after I did # rpm -Fvh * Preparing... rpmdb: read: 0x40445380, 4096: Input/output error) error: db4 error(5) from dbcursor->c_get: Input/output error rpmdb: read: 0x4046a6a0, 4096: Input/output error) error: db4 error(5) from dbcursor->c_get: Input/output error rpmdb: read: 0x405427c8, 4096: Input/output error) error: db4 error(5) from dbcursor->c_get: Input/output error rpmdb: read: 0x4048d8b0, 4096: Input/output error) error: db4 error(5) from dbcursor->c_get: Input/output error ########################################### [100%] Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:openssh ########################################### [ 17%] 2:kernel ########################################### [ 33%] 3:openssh-askpass ########################################### [ 50%] 4:openssh-askpass-gnome ########################################### [ 67%] 5:openssh-clients ########################################### [ 83%] 6:openssh-server ########################################### [100%] # rpm --rebuilddb rpmdb: read: 0x404d8f78, 4096: Input/output error error: db4 error(5) from dbcursor->c_get: Input/output error error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy So now on the rpm-list Jeff recommended to do this cd /var/lib tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb-tar.gz rpm (No IO errors here) mv rpm rpm-FUBAR tar xzvf /tmp/rpmdb-tar.gz rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb -vv But I am still getting # rpm -q kernel rpm package kernel is not installed package rpm is not installed The output of `rpm --rebuilddb -vv' (with error redirected to the same file) is at http://www.csi.hu/mw/rpm.rebuilddb.out Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RPM version 4.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. It is reproducable on _my_ system (only?). 2. 3. Actual Results: # rpm -q kernel rpm package kernel is not installed package rpm is not installed Expected Results: report that the kernel and rpm packages are installed Additional info:
Ah, there you are. ;-) Hmmm, I don't see any EIO Input/output errors in the --rebuilddb log, so the "quick fix" to avoid a few bad blocks may be sufficient. Be forewarned though, you may be looking at incipient hardware failure, check /var/log/* files for other messages. However, there appears to be significant data loss, glibc and kernel are not in the rebuilddb output, and 101 packages is probably too small. If you are lucky, then there should be a list of the packages installed in /var/log/rpmpkgs*. Compare the best looking (i.e. largest, most recent) rpmpkgs log with the output of rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm' | sort to see what was lost. If you can attach a "diff -u" I can suggest the least painful of several alternatives to recreating an rpmdb.
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