[Mageia-dev] Fatal errors with rpm

Wed Mar 14 18:19:58 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 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.
+
+Ok, here we go again:
+I did the same as described earlier:
+Updates, then opening rpmdrake and marking all handbook packages for
+uninstall. After uninstalling one or two packages rpmdrake segfaults.
+Opening it again shows the known errors about the rpm database.
+
+Unfortunately rpmdrake gives no other error message than "Segmentation
+fault" - that's it. So I don't know whether the error messages about
+the rpm database are just a result of the segfault or the cause of the
+segfault.
+
+--
+wobo
+