Put this under rpm and as a F10Target as I'm not sure whether it would be classed as a blocker and I think its more rpm than yum. I'm getting a lot of yum/rpm crashes on latest rawhide (as on Nov 13th) on a x86_64 laptop. The root filesystem is running ext4 so I'm not sure if that is causing issues. If I then do a "rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*" it seems to run just fine. I thought that issue was suppose to be fixed. I have had to do a couple of rpm --rebuilddb at times though. [root@neo ~]# yum install pulseaudio-debuginfo speex-debuginfo libtheora-debuginfo libsoup-debuginfo Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit rpmdb: page 2686: illegal page type or format rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument error: db4 error(-30975) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30975) from dbcursor->c_close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 192, in _getConfig self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 758, in readMainConfig yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 834, in _getsysver hdr = idx.next() StopIteration rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30975) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30975) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30975) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery [root@neo ~]#
Having checked with other user with similar issues on F10, the pattern seems clear enough: rpmdb (Berkeley DB actually) is rather unhappy on ext4. Thanks for providing the necessary hint by mentioning ext4 being involved. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 468437 ***