Re: Bad rpmdb, where'd this come from?

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com>]

On Sat, 25 May 2002, Harry Putnam wrote:

> 
> Running 7.1 and seems to have been running ok for quite a while.
> Today running up2date -u as I do every so often I got a few updates.
> imap, imlib, and fetchmail and sharutils.
> 
> I realized I had no need for imap so just rpm -e'd those instead of
> installing the new ones.  When I did I got this message:
> 
>  rpm -e imap-devel
> 
>  rpmdb: Suspiciously high nelem of 4294967295 on page 0
>  error: db4 error(-30979) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed

You might want to tar up the rpmdatabase so that if it gets totally scrooched
you can always fall back to the way it looks now. I would then try 
rpm --rebuilddb -v and see what you are left with. Most of the time this fixes things
for me.

> Then running rpm -UvhF *.rpm on what was left

I realize this is will not fix your problem but I am courious why you specify
-U and -F on the same command line? I would think -U would override -F.

HTH,


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