Re: How do you fix a corrupt rpm database?

["John A.Chick" <jchick maine com>]

Jeff Johnson wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:34:05PM -0600, mikew@crucis.net wrote:
>> I have a problem using up2date.  The rpm database is corrupted. rpm
>> --rebuilddb
>> fails as does --initdb.  When using up2date, I get a number of error that
>> specify a number of errors by line.
>> 
>> Is there some tool that can fix this?
> 
> No single tool, but here's what I do:
> 
> etc. etc. etc.

Hi Jeff (and RPM guru's),

I've been lurking around the linux.redhat.rpm news group for several days 
now, sifting through all the stuff I can find on RPM seg faults, etc. I've 
also checked out the 38454 and 62610 articles as well. Lots of 
good info.

I have a corrupted database, but even after following your instructions to 
the letter, I'm still getting seg faults.

I'm pretty sure it's associated with an entry in the Packages database for 
kdegames, but I can't seem to get the index number for it, so the t38454 
tool hasn't been much help in this case.

I'm just about ready to rebuild the box. It's not a production machine, so 
it's no big deal, but it would be nice to know how to resolve this, just in 
case it DID happen on a PM.

I dropped a tarball at http://www.monmouth-me.net/rpmdb.tar.gz containing 
all the database files, in case you're interested in taking a look at it.

Thanks,

John A. Chick
jchick@maine.com