[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

Sun Apr 15 17:25:40 CEST 2012

Le 15/04/2012 15:16, Anne Wilson a écrit :
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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
+> - -- 
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4918#c88
+and check that you have only one "rpm" package.
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