PANIC on RPMDB... can't even get version numbers for installed packages...

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Wed Mar 8 05:02:26 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:24 -0300, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
> After update done 00:23 08/Mar/2006 the following  happened (so  I
> can't even get version for packages...):
>  
> [root at terra ~]# yum update
> 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

rpm issue, what steps did you take up to that point? If you experienced
any failures what were they?

Please back up your rpmdb (/var/lib/rpm) and create a bugzilla,
preferably with the history above.

Paul




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