(I tried to find a bug mailing list but failed)
While trying to:
rpm -i tetex-fonts-2.0.2-8.i386.rpm
I got the following error message:
rpmdb: page 1647: illegal page type or format
rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: pgin failed for page 1647
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: db4 error(-30982) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: db4 error(-30982) from dbcursor->c_close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: db4 error(-30982) from db->cursor: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: db4 error(-30982) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: db4 error(-30982) from db->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: db4 error(-30982) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
recovery
error: cannot get Providename index using db3 - (-30982)
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: db4 error(-30982) from db->cursor: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: db4 error(-30982) from db->put: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: db4 error(-30982) from db->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: db4 error(-30982) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
recovery
Note that I'm running using:
System-wide, you can disable the exec-shield functionality with:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
as I'm trying to find a bug. I need to install latex and the rpm install
process failed.
I did:
rpm --rebuilddb
Now rpm seems to work but the database doesn't remember anything.
If I do:
rpm -i tetex-2.0.2-8-i386.rpm
then do:
rpm -i tetex-dvips-2.0.2-8.i386.rpm
it complains that:
error: Failed dependencies:
tetex = 2.0.2 is needed by tetex-dvips-2.0.2-8
running:
rpm -i tetex-2.0.2-8-i386.rpm tetex-dvips-2.0.2-8.i386.rpm
seems to succeed.
Tim Daly
axiom(a)tenkan.org
daly(a)idsi.net
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