[Mageia-dev] Fatal errors with rpm

Wed Mar 14 16:56:58 CET 2012

2012/3/14 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+> 2012/3/14 Robert Fox <list at foxconsult.net>:
+>> On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 16:10 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
+>>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 04:01:03PM +0100, Robert Fox wrote:
+>>> > Since the last few updates, I am experiencing erratic RPM db errors (on
+>>> > more than one machine):
+>>>
+>>> This should already be fixed. Maybe your mirror lags behind a bit.
+>>>
+>>
+>> I have the latest updates and it just happened - I will rebuild the db
+>> and report back if it happens again.
+>
+> Just did updates (including rpm-4.9.1.2-22.mga2) on 2 cauldron
+> installations. Last mirror sync with tier1 was 1:20 hours ago.
+> No problems with rpm db
+
+Now I did some more package management:
+ - I opened a konsole window, did another check with 'urpmi
+--auto-update' which turned up no updates. After that rpm database was
+unlocked. Good.
+ - I opened rpmdrake from the konsole and marked all KDE handbooks for
+uninstall. I clicked on OK and watched the output in the konsole
+window.
+ - after the second handbook urpmi crashed with a segmentation fault
+and rpmdrake showed a message box with the same error (segfault).
+
+Then I rebooted the system and starting rpmdrake on the konsole returned:
+* getting lock on urpmi
+* [reading all synthesis files, ok]
+* Error: rpmdb: Thread/process 2794/1397..... failed: Thread died in
+Berkeley DB library
+* Error: db4 error from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
+run database recovery
+* Error: Unable to open packages index, using db4
+* Error: Unable to open package database in /var/lib/rpm
+* unlocking urpmi database
+
+Mind that this happened with latest updates as written in my previous mail.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+