Re: Rebuilding the database from scratch ??

["R.H. Palko" <rhp_lpt hotmail com>]

18-nov-03

Hello:

Please excuse the length of this posting, but I'm trying to include all the 
relevant symptoms.

I've got basically the same thing. Although in my instance it was caused by 
a failure during a

'rpm -Fvh <rpm filename>' failure which left a '__db.001 empty file in the 
/var/lib/rpm directory.

Trying what has been suggested in this thread, I get the following:

Running 'sudo rpm -vv --rebuilddb'

produces:

D: rebuilding database /var/lib/rpm into /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2703
D: creating directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2703
D: opening old database with dbapi 3
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages create:cdb:mpool
rpmdb: write: 0xbfffd360, 8192: Invalid argument
error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
error: cannot open Packages index
D: removing directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2703
Exit 1

Running 'sudo rpm -vv --initdb'
produces:

D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages create:cdb:mpool
rpmdb: write: 0xbfffd3f0, 8192: Invalid argument
error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)

In both instances a __db.001 file is created in /var/lib/rpm

However, I'm beginning to doubt its related to a corrupted database, as

'rpm -qa' and 'rpm -qi <package name>' and rpm -ql <package name>'

all appear to work. It looks like its related to the rpmdb 'write' function.

I'm running rpm 4.2.0.69 under RH 9. on a P4 laptop and have tried the 
suggestions detailed
in http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ to no avail.

Does anyone have a clue to what is going on and how to recover ?

FWIW the last successfull rpm installatiion just before the problem was:

'sudo rpm -Fvh --nodeps glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7.i686.rpm'

which succeeded.

The next one,

'sudo rpm -Fvh glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.7.i386.rpm' failed

This means my glibc-common and glibc-devel are at 2.3.2-27.9 vice 
2.3.2-27.9.7 for glibc.
However, I doubt the minor version difference is significant as everything 
appears to be working w/e of rpm.

Note I was not aware at the time that packages with dependencies could be 
concatenated on the command line, albeit I have used '--nodeps' before in 
this context successfully.

Thank you
Bob
rhp_lpt@hotmail.com



[root@astronaut lib]# rpm --initdb
rpmdb: write: 0xbfffd670, 8192: Invalid argument
error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)

Same issue.

Thanks for the help,
TheFinn.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodrigo Barbosa" <rodrigob@suespammers.org>
To: <rpm-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: Rebuilding the database from scratch ??


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> Remove your empty files and try "rpm --initdb".
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> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 01:01:49PM +1100, TheFinn wrote:
> > How does one rebuild the database from scratch ?
> >
> > This is the error I'm getting and since have accidently rm'd the
Packages
> > file in /var/lib/rpm (It's not been a good week).
> >
> > [root@astronaut rpm]# rpm --rebuilddb
> > rpmdb: unable to join the environment
> > error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > error: cannot open Packages index
>
> - --
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