Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 18159
rpm -rebuilddb doesn't do anything
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:59 EDT
I took the following steps to install the 7.0 version of RPM on my 6.2 system: Grabbed rpm-3.0.6.i386.tar.gz and untar'd it from /. installed these packages: glibc-devel-2.1.92-14.i386.rpm db3-devel-3.1.14-6.i386.rpm db3-3.1.14-6.i386.rpm db2-devel-2.4.14-4.i386.rpm db2-2.4.14-4.i386.rpm db1-devel-1.85-4.i386.rpm db1-1.85-4.i386.rpm bzip2-1.0.1-3.i386.rpm rpm2html-1.4-4.i386.rpm rpm-python-4.0-4.i386.rpm rpm-devel-4.0-4.i386.rpm rpm-build-4.0-4.i386.rpm rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm glibc-2.1.92-14.i686.rpm rpmlint-0.14-4.noarch.rpm rpmdb-redhat-7.0-0.20000830.i386.rpm After this step, any other rpm commands would tell me I need to run -rebuiddb. When I did this, it did nothing. strace shows a bunch of fstat32() calls with only hex args are failing. What is missing? The command returns very quickly with no messages, appearing to do nothing. No error, no converted database. Re-installing rpm-3.0.6.i386.tar.gz allows rpm (3.0.6) to work, proving the database is not converted.
Actually I think it was fstat64().
Shouldn't that be rpm --rebuilddb (note the two '-' characters), hopefully this will squash this bug quickly :)
No such luck. I did use --rebuilddb (2 '-'s). # rpm --rebuilddb # rpm -q -a # Somehow it doesn't even complain any more that I need to rebuild. Here is the strace for rpm --rebuilddb: open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY) = 3 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(0x3, 0xbffff700) = 0 lseek(3, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0 read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\6\0\7\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10"..., 4096) = 4096 fcntl(3, F_SETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 open("/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2444/Packages", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644) = 4 fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(0x4, 0xbffff670) = 0 lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0 read(4, "", 256) = 0 stat64(0x8058a18, 0xbffff6a0) = 0 getpid() = 2444 time(NULL) = 970552740 close(4) = 0 stat64(0x400fc5dd, 0xbfffef60) = 0 brk(0x805c000) = 0x805c000 old_mmap(NULL, 274432, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x402b5000 open("/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2444/Packages", O_RDWR) = 4 fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(0x4, 0xbffff6f0) = 0 lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0 read(4, "", 4096) = 0 lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0 write(4, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\6\0\7\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10"..., 4096) = 4096 lseek(4, 8192, SEEK_SET) = 8192 write(4, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\20\0\2\0"..., 4096) = 4096 fsync(4) = 0 fcntl(4, F_SETLK, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 brk(0x805e000) = 0x805e000 lseek(3, 4096, SEEK_SET) = 4096 read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 4096 lseek(3, 8192, SEEK_SET) = 8192 read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\20\0\2\0"..., 4096) = 4096 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40272000, 274432) = 0 close(4) = 0 munmap(0x402b5000, 274432) = 0 stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = 0 rename("/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2444/Packages", "/var/lib/rpm/Packages") = 0 stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64(0xbffffb00, 0xbffff930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) rmdir("/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2444") = 0 _exit(0) = ? I left the system in this state in case you need more info. BTW: file reports: # file /var/lib/rpm/Packages /var/lib/rpm/Packages: Berkeley DB 2.X Hash/Little Endian (Version 7, Logical sequence number: file - 0, offset - 0, Bucket Size 4096, Overflow Point 2048, Last Freed 0, Max Bucket 0, High Mask 0x0, Low Mask 0x0, Fill Factor 0, Number of Keys 0) # If I re-install rpm 3.0.6, it will correctly be able to list all the packages I have installed.
Created attachment 3690 [details] how to resolve db1/db3 issues
I have resolved the problem. I removed Packages, installed the updated popt* packages, and re-ran rpm --rebuilddb and it worked.
*** Bug 18841 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***