rpm trouble with fc6-test2

[Jay Cliburn]

Max Spevack wrote:
> Everything was fine, I was happily using yum, etc.
> 
> Now all of a sudden:
> 
> root at localhost ~ % 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
> 
> Anyone else seeing this trouble?
> 

Yes.  My i386 rawhide system yum update hung while updating glibc, so I 
killed it after 30 minutes.  Now rpm behaves very, very badly.

[root at gadwall ~]# rpm --rebuilddb
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, 
run database recovery