rpmdb error help needed

[M A Young]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, [UTF-8] Parag N(पराà¥^Z) wrote:

> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
> error, run database recovery
>
> I even removed all /var/lib/rpm/__* files and tried to install any rpm
> but same errors i got when i executed following command
> rpm -ivh kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-1.2747.fc6.i686.rpm
> whats that mean? how to recover rpm database?

You can try
rpm --rebuilddb
also
cd /var/lib/rpm; /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_recover

	Michael Young