database mess up

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

I have another machine and I get a corrupted database very often, even
this gives an error !

# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
# rpm --rebuilddb
rpmdb: page 2678: illegal page type or format
rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument
error: db4 error(-30975) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal 
error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from dbcursor->c_close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal 
error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run 
database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, 
run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run 
database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run 
database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, 
run database recovery


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  Patrick DUPRÉ                      |   |
  Department of Chemistry            |   |    Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384
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