Bug 115907 - Cannot open Packages index using db3
Summary: Cannot open Packages index using db3
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 9
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-02-16 23:16 UTC by Dave Johnson
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:03 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-02-17 16:09:52 UTC
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Description Dave Johnson 2004-02-16 23:16:42 UTC
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Description of problem:
When attempting to install, query, or otherwise interact with the RPM
database using RPM, we get the following errors:

#rpm -Uvh ...
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unexpected file type or formaterror:
cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)error:
cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

#rpm --rebuilddb
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unexpected file type or formaterror:
cannot open Packages index

The permissions of /var/lib/rpm are identical to a working system. 
Removing the /var/lib/rpm/__db* lock files has no effect (as is
probably expected).  The 'file' utility reports that the Packages file
is "data".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.2-0.69

How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
We're not sure how the database got into this state, so we're not sure
how to reproduce.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2004-02-17 16:09:52 UTC
EINVAL during open is usually the new fangled O_DIRECT
kernel interpretation that breaks rpm.

You need to boot an older, 2.4.x kernel, upgrade to
rpm-4.2-1 from ftp.rpm.org, then reboot the kernel that you
are running.

Reopen this bug if that does not fix.


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