[Mageia-dev] Fatal errors with rpm

Wed Mar 14 17:03:33 CET 2012

2012/3/14 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+> 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.
+
+Adding info: erasing and rebuilding the db does not work. After
+removing the _db* I run # rpm --rebuilddb which returns
+:
+* 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
+
+Result: system is unusable now.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+