yum update: Fatal error, run database recovery ??

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 20:16:10 UTC 2009


On F11 beta:

yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
rpmdb: Thread/process 3935/140267357374192 failed: Thread died in 
Berkeley DB library
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal 
error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
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 309, in user_main
     errcode = main(args)
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main
     base.getOptionsConfig(args)
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig
     self.conf
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 649, in 
<lambda>
     conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 239, in 
_getConfig
     self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 794, in 
readMainConfig
     yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, 
startupconf.distroverpkg)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 867, in 
_getsysver
     idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed

And this didn't fix it:
rpm --rebuilddb
rpmdb: Thread/process 3935/140267357374192 failed: Thread died in 
Berkeley DB library
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal 
error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)

I'll file a bug, but how can I fix this in the meantime?

sean




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