Re: [K12OSN] bad rpm database after restore from backup

[Les Mikesell <les futuresource com>]

On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 17:28, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> 	as a for instance: the /var/lib/rpm directory looks goot, but rpm
> and apt-get just blow up. Trying to restore rpm database:
> [root solinden rpm]# rpm --rebuilddb
> rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30982) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
> run database recovery
> error: cannot open Packages index
> 
> any thoughts? what went wrong? the backup was done and restored with "cpio
> -pudmv" command. tia, julius

Older versions of rpm screwed up the database regularly.  Go to
/var/lib/rpm remove any files named rm __db.0* (that's 2
underscores).  Then do the rpm --rebuilddb again.  Also be
sure no other instances of rpm or apt-get are still running. If
no one else is using the machine the easy way to be sure is
to reboot.
 
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  Les Mikesell
    les futuresource com