Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 431236
Error Updating after fresh install of Fedora Core 8
Last modified: 2008-05-28 15:32:29 EDT
Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Installed fresh Fedora Core 8 from DVD, with no additional components, no Dev, no Office, no web server 2. Had issue with Volari display driver so changed grub load to remove rhgb quiet in run level 3 3. Started X 4. The very first time the system prompted for updates, it was not able to update with the error Actual results: raceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 614, in <module> main() File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 606, in main pup = PackageUpdater(not options.autoapply, options.config) File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 85, in __init__ GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False, config) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 129, in __init__ plugin_types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 113, in doConfigSetup errorlevel=errorlevel) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 159, in _getConfig self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 613, in readMainConfig yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 680, in _getsysver idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg) TypeError: rpmdb open failed Local variables in innermost frame: installroot: / ts: <rpmUtils.transaction.TransactionWrapper instance at 0x87d8dac> distroverpkg: redhat-release Expected results: Should have started to reach out to download and install updates as it normally does. Additional info:
I've the same problem and I've tried to rebuilt rpmdb using "rpm --rebuilddb". I've got the following : rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery erreur: erreur db4(-30977) de dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery erreur: ne peut ouvrir l'index Packages en utilisant db3 - (-30977)
Finally I've just found a solution to fix this bug : doing : rm /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb I was able to fix this error. I don't know why or how it happened but it works.