[Mageia-dev] Fatal errors with rpm

Wed Mar 14 17:18:42 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 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.
+
+Solution: I had to manually erase the lock file /var/lib/rpm/.RPMLOCK
+After that rebuilding the database worked and urpmi is usable again.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+