Running 7.1 and seems to have been running ok for quite a while.
Today running up2date -u as I do every so often I got a few updates.
imap, imlib, and fetchmail and sharutils.
I realized I had no need for imap so just rpm -e'd those instead of
installing the new ones. When I did I got this message:
rpm -e imap-devel
rpmdb: Suspiciously high nelem of 4294967295 on page 0
error: db4 error(-30979) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed
Then running rpm -UvhF *.rpm on what was left
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:imlib ########################################### [ 20%]
2:fetchmail ########################################### [ 40%]
3:imlib-cfgeditor ########################################### [ 60%]
4:imlib-devel ########################################### [ 80%]
5:sharutils ########################################### [100%]
rpmdb: Suspiciously high nelem of 4294967295 on page 0
error: db4 error(-30979) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed
The number after `high nelem of' in the first error may have been a
different number. I didn' actually keep that one, and used one that
followed for example.
Anyone know what is happening here?
rpm -V rpm reveals this information:
root # rpm -V rpm
.....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Dirnames
.....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Filemd5s
.....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Installtid
.....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Provideversion
.....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Requireversion
.....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Sha1header
.....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/Sigmd5
.....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/__db.001
.....UG. c /var/lib/rpm/__db.002
And a ls -al shows:
(NOTE: The two files beginning with double underscore do not show up)
root # ls -la /var/lib/rpm
total 18612
drwxr-xr-x 2 rpm rpm 4096 May 25 07:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 19 11:46 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 5214208 May 25 07:11 Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 May 25 07:11 Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86016 May 25 07:11 Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 626688 May 25 07:11 Filemd5s
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 May 25 07:11 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 May 25 07:11 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 24576 May 25 07:11 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 14372864 May 25 07:11 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 86016 May 25 07:11 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 May 25 07:11 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 118784 May 25 07:11 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 May 25 07:11 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 May 25 07:11 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 May 25 07:11 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 May 25 07:11 Triggername
Normal queries work as usual
root # rpm -q sharutils
sharutils-4.2.1-8.7.x
I fixed what appears to be a permissions error and reset everything to
rpm rpm. That silenced rpm -V.
But it seems some things just don't work as they should:
root # rpm -Uvh fetchmail-5.9.0-10.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:fetchmail ########################################### [100%]
rpmdb: Suspiciously high nelem of 4294967295 on page 0 error: db4
error(-30979) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification
failed
Although the install seems to have worked:
# rpm -q fetchmail
fetchmail-5.9.0-10
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