Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 110982
Upgrade from redhat9 trashes rpm database
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:34 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031001 Firebird/0.7+ Description of problem: After upgrading a Sony Vaio laptop from redhat 9 to fedora core the rpm database has been trashed. Issuing "rpm --rebuilddb" has no effect whatsoever and the command returns immediately as opposed to the expected output and long delay as the database is being rebuilt. Issuing rpm -q rpm (or any other package) comes back (obviously) with a message stating that the package is not installed. How do I get my rpm database resurrected? I am probably going to have to install from scratch but I thought I'd post this to warn the fedora developers that there is an issue as other users might be less experienced. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install redhat 9 2.Upgrade to fedora core from redhat 9 base install Actual Results: Rpm database gets wiped clean Expected Results: Rpm database should still exist Additional info:
What does "ls -al /var/lib/rpm" say?
[root@alanis root]# ls -al /var/lib/rpm total 50960 drwxr-xr-x 2 rpm rpm 4096 Nov 15 22:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Nov 15 21:38 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 9834496 Nov 15 22:22 Basenames -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Nov 15 22:21 Conflictname -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 1421312 Nov 15 22:22 Dirnames -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10489856 Nov 15 22:22 Filemd5s -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Nov 15 22:22 Group -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 20480 Nov 15 22:22 Installtid -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 45056 Nov 15 22:22 Name -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 35909632 Nov 15 22:22 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 339968 Nov 15 22:22 Providename -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 94208 Nov 15 22:22 Provideversion -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Nov 15 22:22 Pubkeys -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 233472 Nov 15 22:22 Requirename -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 167936 Nov 15 22:22 Requireversion -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 90112 Nov 15 22:22 Sha1header -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 49152 Nov 15 22:22 Sigmd5 -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Nov 15 22:22 Triggername
OK, Packages exists and appears to have valid (i.e. non-empty) data. What does "rpm --rebuilddb -vv" say?
[root@alanis root]# rpm --rebuilddb -vv D: rebuilding database /var/local/lib/rpm into /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557 D: creating directory /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557 D: opening old database with dbapi 3 D: unshared posix mutexes found(38), adding DB_PRIVATE, using fcntl lock D: opening db environment /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages create:cdb:mpool:private D: opening db index /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: locked db index /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages D: opening new database with dbapi 3 D: unshared posix mutexes found(38), adding DB_PRIVATE, using fcntl lock D: opening db environment /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557/Packages create:mpool:private D: opening db index /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557/Packages create mode=0x42 D: closed db index /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages D: removed db environment /var/local/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db index /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557/Packages D: closed db environment /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557/Packages D: removed db environment /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557/Packages D: removing directory /var/local/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2557
Hmmm, what kernel and glibc are you using? rpm-4.2 needs nptl supprort, and you appear (the DB_PRIVATE messages) to not have functional nptl (threading). Did you perhaps install the i386 version of glibc? That does not have nptl compiled in.
I am using a custom kernel 2.4.23. I've never known the kernel to clash with the rpm package manager. This is a new one for me! What is the nptl patch you are referring to? I noticed that the Fedora shipper kernel is 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl but did not take much notice of the spurious nptl extension. I presume this means it is a 2.4.22 kernel with the nptl patch? Please can you advise on how to proceed. I don't want to rely on a now obsolete kernel (2.4.22) and so would appreciate any advise on how to patch to support nptl. The glibc version I am using is the standard Fedora shipped packages. I have definitly not changed this from the standard version but can't tell you what I have because of my "rpm" issue.
Do you have Red Hat changes in your "custom" 2.4.23 kernel? If no, you should be building and using rpm-4.1.1. The issue is NPTL used for pthread-mutexes on rpmdb, rpm-4.1.1 is the same code base as rpm-4.2, but is built without --enable-posixmutexexs. Alternatively, build rpm-4.2 without --enable-posixmutexes.
I will rebuild rpm as per suggestion. Thanks.