What causes a broken RPMDB ?? - Issue 181363

[Joerg Skottke]

Hi Erwin,

i reported the issue some time ago (Issue 181363), there is a temporary 
solution which will repair your database but not solve your problem.

Joerg

Erwin Rol wrote:
> Today's update seems to have seriously broken my rpmdb. I can not
> execute any rpm command anymore. 
> 
> [root at xpc rpm]# rpm -qa
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
> run database recovery
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30977)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> 
> I could fix it by removing all __db.??? files and running rpm
> --rebuilddb. But what i am wondering is what caused the corruption. I
> can't find anything in the logs (like filesystem corruption) that
> indicates a failure of my hardware. 
> 
>  - Erwin
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