Re: failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb imaginet fr>]

> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:34:33 -0400
> From: Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net>
> 
> How about typing: file /var/lib/rpm/*  this will tell us if your database is
> ok or screwed
> beyond repair.  Here's the output from my healthy rpm (v4) database:
> [root@king aolserver3_1]# file /var/lib/rpm/*
> /var/lib/rpm/Basenames:        Berkeley DB 2.X Hash/Little Endian (Version
> 7, Logical sequence number: file - 0, offset - 0, Bucket Size 4096, Overflow
> Point 2048, Last Freed 605, Max Bucket 0, High Mask 0x0, Low Mask 0x0, Fill
> Factor 0, Number of Keys 0)
> [...]

A good  point. I  already looked  at this result,  but since  it's not
specific, I did  not include it to my previous  messages.

[pascal@hermes tmp]$ file /var/lib/rpm/*
/var/lib/rpm/conflictsindex.rpm: data
/var/lib/rpm/fileindex.rpm:      data
/var/lib/rpm/groupindex.rpm:     MP32, 44.1 kHz, Stereo
/var/lib/rpm/nameindex.rpm:      data
/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm:       data
/var/lib/rpm/providesindex.rpm:  data
/var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm:     data
/var/lib/rpm/triggerindex.rpm:   data

But on another installation (same rpm-3.0.3), it looks like:

[root@triton /root]# file /var/lib/rpm/* |head -2
/var/lib/rpm/conflictsindex.rpm: Berkeley DB 1.85 Hash/Little Endian (Version 2, Bucket Size 4096, Bucket Shift 12, Directory Size 256, Segment Size 256, Segment Shift 8, Overflow Point 1, Last Freed 2, Max Bucket 1, High Mask 0x3, Low Mask 0x1, Fill Factor 65536, Number of Keys 22)
/var/lib/rpm/fileindex.rpm:      Berkeley DB 1.85 Hash/Little Endian (Version 2, Bucket Size 4096, Bucket Shift 12, Directory Size 256, Segment Size 256, Segment Shift 8, Overflow Point 10, Last Freed 192, Max Bucket 581, High Mask 0x3ff, Low Mask 0x1ff, Fill Factor 176, Number of Keys 60653)

Shall I forget all hope? Is  there any tool to recover Berkely DB 1.85
databases? Or  gdbm-1.85? since it  seems it is this  implementation I
have.



[pascal@hermes rpm]$ ls -l
total 22217
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16384 Nov 28  1999 conflictsindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      4861952 Nov 28  1999 fileindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        24576 Nov 28  1999 groupindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        49152 Nov 28  1999 nameindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     14906824 Nov 28  1999 packages.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        49152 Nov 28  1999 providesindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2727936 Nov 28  1999 requiredby.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16384 Nov 28  1999 triggerindex.rpm


[root@triton rpm]# ls -l
total 24177
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Feb 14  1996 ./
drwxr-xr-x   15 root     root         1024 Nov  7  1999 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16384 Sep  2 08:26 conflictsindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      4988928 Sep  2 08:26 fileindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        24576 Sep  2 08:26 groupindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        49152 Sep  2 08:26 nameindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     16309192 Sep  2 08:21 packages.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        49152 Sep  2 08:26 providesindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      4923392 Sep  2 08:26 requiredby.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16384 Sep  2 08:26 triggerindex.rpm

> Mate Wierdl wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:23:49AM +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> >
> > > Well, thank you, I did not thought of using -vv. Here are the results:
> > >
> > > [root@hermes /root]# rpm -qvv apache
> > > D: opening database mode 0x0 in //var/lib/rpm/
> > > failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> > >
> > > rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
> > >
> > > [root@hermes /root]# rpm -q -a -vv
> > > D: opening database mode 0x0 in //var/lib/rpm/
> > > failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> > >
> > > rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
> > >
> > > Not much more helpful...
> >
> > So what did you get when you tried
> >
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> >
> > and how are the permissons on /var and /var/lib ?
> >
> > Mate
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
> 
> 


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