[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

Sun Apr 15 15:16:23 CEST 2012

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+Cauldron on Acer Aspire One 533
+
+I tested a Cauldron install (beta 2 download) on VirtualBox and found
+no serious problems, so started yesterday to prepare my netbook for my
+holiday.
+
+It took 5 hours to install - using a USB DVD drive.  Once Coling had
+helped me find an error that I had made during the install, everything
+appeared to be fine, and today I started preparing for the big update.
+ rpm updated, then I got
+
+db4 error (-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
+run database recovery
+
+Rebuilding the database also failed so I followed advice to remove
+/var/lib/rpm/_* and tried again to rebuild.  Then
+
+from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found
+
+Googling, I found several references, but all of them quite old, which
+made me nervous of trying the suggested solution.  However, I did try,
+since I have nothing to lose at this point, "export
+LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=3.3.0" - which made no difference whatsoever.
+
+After a reboot I tried update once again and was offered two packages
+for updating - but then was told that it couldn't open the database.
+
+In desperation I tried "rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/*" - I hope I haven't
+broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to have changed.  The
+database will still not rebuild.
+
+If I try to update I get a message that the list is updating - but
+only one list, presumably the core list - then I'm told that the list
+of updates is empty.
+
+How can I get this working again?
+
+Anne
+- -- 
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