[Ambassadors] installation problem through yum

[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 10:43 -0700, Rohit Gupta wrote:
> I recently installed fedora in our EE HOD (prof. SM) computer and We
> are having the following problem.
> I have connected the computer through local mirror and everything gets
> downloaded, dependencies resolved. It just cannot install the
> package.
> 
> [root at satadal satadal]# yum install vlc
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
> error, run database recovery
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30975)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>     yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main
>     errcode = main(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main
>     base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig
>     enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 192,
> in _getConfig
>     self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 758, in
> readMainConfig
>     yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot,
> startupconf.distroverpkg)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 828, in
> _getsysver
>     idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
> [root at satadal satadal]#
> 
> I also tried with the simple rpm  file.
> 
> [root at satadal Download]# rpm -Uvh fuse-sshfs-2.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
> error, run database recovery
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30975)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> warning: fuse-sshfs-2.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
> NOKEY, key ID 4ebfc273
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
> error, run database recovery
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> [root at satadal Download]#
> 
> Please add CC while replying as : rohit.kgec at gmail.com
> 
> Regards:
> Rohit Gupta
> KGEC
> 
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hi,

This is how i tackled it..

i deleted the __db.xxx files at /var/lib/rpm/ and ran rpm --rebuilddb

please refer man rpm for more details

regards,

Ankur