defect rom-database

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Götz Reinicke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to update a redhat 9 server to fedora core 1. The update 
> failed with an error like: The installationimage couldn't be 
> transfered. Maybe insufficient free disk space.
>
> After a Reboot, the server started but I can't query or install rpm 
> packages:
>
> [root at klee rpm]# rpm -qa
> rpmdb: write: 0xbfffc610, 8192: Das Argument ist ungültig
> Fehler: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Das Argument ist ungültig
> Fehler: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Das Argument ist 
> ungültig (22)
> Fehler: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> no packages
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Thanks for all hints!
>
> regards
>
> Götz Reinicke
>
Looks like what I've had when updating from RH9 to FC1 last friday... 
Remove the /var/lib/rpm/__db* files , then run rpmdb --rebuilddb -v . 
It'll print lots of things.. when it's done , try the rpm -qa again... 
it'll work perfectly...

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Pedro Macedo