On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 09:53 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:29:42AM +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> This morning i tried to do a yum update and got an error, when trying a
> rpm -qa i got the following error;
>
> [root@xpc erwin]# rpm -qa
> rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: Invalid hash meta page 0
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>
> I have no idea how this happened, have others seen this problem
I also have ahd issues with rpm database corruption, but I don't know
what caused it nor how to reproduce it. sometimes there is a segfault
when running yum, which is certainly in the rpmlib, and I guess it is
what screews things, and also sometimes rpm never finish.
I never seen RPM hang on this machine, but i did see it happen on my
dual core machine.
> recently? And more important how can it be fixed?
What I do is
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpm --rebuilddb
Yeah i did this minus the db_verify part.
One silly question, didn't rpm start using sqlite? But the databases
are still BDB?
- Erwin