Bug 590710 - --rebuilddb should rebuild db
Summary: --rebuilddb should rebuild db
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Panu Matilainen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-10 14:28 UTC by Stas Sergeev
Modified: 2011-06-27 16:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-06-27 16:14:26 UTC
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Description Stas Sergeev 2010-05-10 14:28:20 UTC
Description of problem:
rpm --rebuilddb
rpmdb: Program version 4.8 doesn't match environment version 4.7
ошибка: ошибка(3) db-30971 из dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch
ошибка: невозможно открыть индекс Packages используя db3 -  (-30971)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.8.0-14.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade rpm from F12 to F13
2. rpm doesn't work
3. rpm --rebuilddb
  
Actual results:
The error message quoted above

Expected results:
Rebuilt db

Additional info:
Manually removing __db* helps.

Comment 1 Jim Cromie 2011-04-10 21:38:32 UTC
Id vote for this bug.

I recently corrupted my /var/lib/rpm/* such that sudo rpm --rebuilddb
failed hard:

[jimc@harpo rpm]$ sudo rpm --rebuilddb
rpmdb: Thread/process 21561/3079325376 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)


I ended up having to delete the files, --initdb,
manually reinstall fedora-release-14-0.7
then sudo yum shell would work,
before installing release-14, repolist etc wouldnt work..

rpm -qa now shows 2 installed packages.
rpm --verify is no help at all, it wont check files unless it thinks
they were installed from rpms.

--rebuilddb should IMHO:

starting with base-packages that should be installed,
verify that the files on the HD match the (supposedly) not-installed rpm,
when a majority of package files are found to match the checksums,
rpm should record the package as installed, such that rpm -qa will report it,
and subsequent rpm --verify will check it.

AFAIK, without a real --rebuilddb, my system is not recoverable
such that I can verify it.  Everything works now, but I cannot know
that the current content of /usr/bin/ is as it should be,
never mind 6 months from now.


perhaps --verifyfiles, --rebuilddbfull, --rescanfs 
is needed to denote the extra work.

Comment 2 Jim Cromie 2011-04-11 05:30:05 UTC
uhm, it seems that verify still works, at least appears to check that
filesystem still looks ok

$ rpm -Vv filesystem-2.4.35-1.fc14.i686 | head -10
.........    /
.........    /bin
.........    /boot
.........    /dev
.........    /etc
.........    /etc/X11
.........    /etc/X11/applnk
.........    /etc/X11/fontpath.d

The main verify complaint still stands though, without rpm -qa
showing whats installed, its hard to enumerate packages to verify.

Worse, installs will happen without checking current files;
I (re) installed perl, and they then appeared in -qa output,
but if config files had been altered by me, the rpmnew clobber
protection would probably not have happened (I didnt check).

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 16:14:26 UTC
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