Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 128688
RPM db4 error(-30978) while installing on motherboard ASUS P4B with Pentium 1,6 GHz
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:46 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 Description of problem: When I try to install FC2 on two of our PCs then the rpm database seems to becomes corrupted somewhere while the package installation. In the file /root/install.log I found many messages of the form: error: db4 error(-30978) from dbcursor->c_put: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: error(-30978) storing record /usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/ into Dirnames These messages are repeated with different paths many times, starting somewhere in the middle of the file /root/install.log and lasting until the last rpm package is installed. There are still messages between the error messages that a rpm package with name xxx will be installed, but starting with the error messages these packages are not installed afterwards. In my case the error messages start after the message GConf2-2.6.0-4.i386 wird installiert. (german - the named package is being installed) This is reproducable when using the same (kickstart) configuration. But I suspect that it has nothing to do with the package itself, but that it seems that is a general problem with some driver or something like that. This error appears only on two of our hosts, which have the same hardware configuration. They have a motherboard ASUS P4B with bios version 1012, cpu Pentium 4 with 1,6 GHz, 512 mb ram, scsi hard disk . On both computers the results are the same. I exchanged the hard disk and the memory module, with and without ECC, but the results are the same. memtest86+ reported no error on both computers. I installed FC2 on about 18 other computers with many different motherboards and different intel cpus, using the same source (booting from cd, kickstart installation over the dhcp, FC2 sources over nfs). While installing the same set of rpm packages, none of them had these problems. Only these two computers with equal hardware. First I thought this would be a hardware error, after some days and some tests with different hardware components and the same results on both equal hosts and very reproducable results I tend to say that it may be a software problem. Does someone have an idea what the reason could be and what to do to install FC2 successful on that hardware? Many thanks in advance! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Use the kickstart file and install FC2 on a PC with ASUS P4B motherboard and Intel Pentium 4 1,6 GHz. Actual Results: After FC2 installation has finished and rebooted the graphical X11 login will not appear. There appear messages from init that 'x' entry is respawning to often and will be suspended for 5 minutes. In /root/install.log there will be the messages noted above. Some rpm packages seems not being installed. Expected Results: FC2 installation should be successful like on our other computers. Additional info:
Created attachment 102241 [details] /root/anaconda-ks.cfg created by the installation process. I have blanked out the host names and ip addresses for security reasons.
Can you verify your media following the instructions at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/mediacheck.html?
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I tried FC3 on the same computer as noted above. Its a Intel Pentium 1,6 GHz with motherboard ASUS P4B BIOS version 1012 (and I also tried BIOS version 1013-004 beta). This time FC3 installation crashes with a window from anaconda telling me that there seems to be a bug and I should report it as an anaconda error through bugzilla. I will put an attachment gziped tar file of some log files from the installation from /tmp. I have edited the log files to hide private information. All IP numbers and host names are replaced by some 'x'. Is there a chance to get this working? I have problems with this computer since RedHat 9 (RedHat 7.2 was working). The problem was similar in all newer versions. I testet the memory with memtest86, verified the hard disk with the verify option build in to the SCSI controller - no errors. I am booting with CD FC3 disk 1 and starting with 'linux ks'. The computer uses dhcp and nfs to access the FC3 installation image. I created the image from the iso image by mounting the image without creation of a CD and then copying the data from each CD image to disk. I installed several computers with the same FC3 image and had no problem with it. Just do mention: The error message is reproduceable - each time the same (when using the same parameters). This problem seems to be very mysterious to me! Many thanks in advance! Edgar
Created attachment 111681 [details] Log files from /tmp after the crash of anaconda while installing FC3
This has been shown to be due to cpus with incorrect microcode. A BIOS upgrade to flash the microcode should fix the proble