corruption in excess of rpm-list repair instructions report: http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ Assistance would be appreciated. [root@dragnet rpm]# rpm -q rpm rpm-4.0.4-7x [root@dragnet rpm]# rpm -V rpm .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Basenames .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Dirnames .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Filemd5s .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Group .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Installtid .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Name .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Packages .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Providename .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Provideversion .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Requirename .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Requireversion .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Sha1header .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Sigmd5 .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Triggername .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 .....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 [root@dragnet rpm]# aumix-2.7-8 db2-devel-2.4.14-10 gdm-2.2.3.1-22 error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #708 retrieved, skipping. error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #712 retrieved, skipping. db2-devel-2.4.14-10 timidity++-2.11.3-1 MAKEDEV-3.3-4 Segmentation fault (core dumped) [root@dragnet rpm]# history | tail 141 reboot 142 cd /var/lib 143 rpm -q rpm 144 cat /etc/redhat-release 145 cd rpm ; db_verify Packages 146 pwd 147 mv Packages Packages-ORIG 148 db_dump Packages-ORIG | db_load Packages 149 rpm -qa 150 history | tail [root@dragnet rpm]#
Packages is kinda fat ... [root@dragnet rpm]# ls -al Pa* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18079744 Aug 22 16:44 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17829888 Aug 21 15:19 Packages-ORIG [root@dragnet rpm]# I can gzip them and place them where you can grab them. [root@dragnet rpm]# cp Packages-ORIG Packages-ORIG-to-gzip [root@dragnet rpm]# gzip -9 Packages-ORIG-to-gzip [root@dragnet rpm]# ls -al Pa* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18079744 Aug 22 16:44 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17829888 Aug 21 15:19 Packages-ORIG -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5680525 Aug 22 16:51 Packages-ORIG-to-gzip.gz [root@dragnet rpm]#
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fix provided offline from rpm-4.1-0.87 works fine -- thanks