Bug 231771 – unhandled exception in pirut, rpmdb open failed

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Bug 231771 - unhandled exception in pirut, rpmdb open failed

Summary:	unhandled exception in pirut, rpmdb open failed

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	pirut (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
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Duplicates:	218952 231915 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2007-03-11 10:29 EDT by ravrat
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	updates
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Last Closed:	2007-03-19 17:58:41 EDT
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Description ravrat 2007-03-11 10:29:04 EDT

Description of problem:
When i run software updater once, then run pirut, it creates an exception. 

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


How reproducible:
run software updater, then let it update, then run add/remove programs. Running
software updater also produces an exception

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Comment 1 ravrat 2007-03-11 10:29:04 EDT

Created attachment 149792 [details]
log file generated

Comment 2 ravrat 2007-03-11 12:38:45 EDT

i ran yum update from the shell line, and i get the following error
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30977)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 177, in getOptionsConfig
    self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 102, in
doConfigSetup
    self.conf = config.readMainConfig(fn, root)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 589, in readMainConfig
    vars['releasever'] = _getsysver(earlyconf.installroot, earlyconf.distroverpkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 689, in _getsysver
   idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2007-03-19 17:58:41 EDT

This is fixed with later kernels.

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2007-03-19 18:00:50 EDT

*** Bug 231915 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2007-03-19 18:05:18 EDT

*** Bug 218952 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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