[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

Sun Apr 15 18:47:22 CEST 2012

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+On 15/04/12 16:25, Manuel Hiebel wrote:
+> 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.
+
+Thanks.  My search skills need polishing - I didn't find that one.
+
+I removed the lock files, then tested for rpm - and it seems that I
+must have destroyed that while trying to sort out the db problem.
+Requesting a re-install brought up the need for 131 packages!  Towards
+the end, that failed, saying that certain packages were required.  I
+tried to install those, but seem to be stumbling on
+sound-scripts-0.62-1.mga2.noarch.rpm which it says is missing.
+
+Attempting to install sound-scripts separately asks whether I want to
+use systemd-sysvinit or sysvinit-legacy.  I've tried both, but both
+fail due to missing sound-scripts.
+
+Anne
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