-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello list,
I killed my RPMDB, propably by misusage. This is how I did it: I upgraded from RPM-5.1.9 to 5.3.10. I ran dbconvert.sh (which told me that the conversion failed), but repeated usage of db_recover -ev and rpm --rebuilddb finally got things in order. I'm using a chroot, which went the same path. However, after using "rpm -r /my/chroot -Uvh ...", the RPMDB *outside* the chroot is corrupted. When running "rpm -qa", this is what I get: - ---%<--- Freeing read locks for locker 0xa: 23945/3062028096 Freeing read locks for locker 0xb: 23945/3062028096 Freeing mutex for process: 23945/0 Freeing mutex for process: 23945/0 Freeing mutex for process: 23945/0 Freeing mutex for process: 23945/0 Freeing mutex for process: 23945/0 Freeing mutex for process: 23945/0 Freeing mutex for process: 23945/0 Freeing mutex for process: 23945/0 Freeing mutex for process: 23945/0 libXfixes-4.0.3-1ev.i686 error: rpmdb: header #33554432 cannot be loaded -- skipping. (none)-(none)-(none) Segmentation fault - --->%--- How, db_convert and rpm --rebuilddb don't help anymore. The latter one prints: - ---%<--- Freeing read locks for locker 0xe: 25167/3062372160 Freeing read locks for locker 0xf: 25167/3062372160 Freeing mutex for process: 25167/0 Freeing mutex for process: 25167/0 Freeing mutex for process: 25167/0 Freeing mutex for process: 25167/0 Freeing mutex for process: 25167/0 Freeing mutex for process: 25167/0 Freeing mutex for process: 25167/0 Freeing mutex for process: 25167/0 Freeing mutex for process: 25167/0 error: db3: header #33554432 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #67108864 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #83886080 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #100663296 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #117440512 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #134217728 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #150994944 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #167772160 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #201326592 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #218103808 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #234881024 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #268435456 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #285212672 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #301989888 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #385875968 cannot be loaded -- skipping. error: db3: header #486539264 cannot be loaded -- skipping. rpm: header.c:1050: headerLoad: Assertion `(rpmint32_t)rdl >= 0' failed. Aborted - --->%--- The underlying BDB version is 5.1.25. I'd be grateful for any hint, and also some explainations about why I did it to kill the system rpmdb using "rpm -r". TIA! Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJN9SMaAAoJEIXD2TZ1epVBzSkP/3YctnPKciYXuaucHzwWt6kP eQYxUsVfFdAonTbmHLR7pdLTbLPPJXqXEI1IFNcdeChOf1HU3OqmMPrwD2C7CW7N IDk0qPPns8KvlNFMlOR7kfXT1GwNktKkLtl+E8v+A7YtXMW1IpThCvo1T3cxaD9q tjerRl3y05gKyZcZ/4cm+OrgAcMt8cN3xsMASuYF/SYKiZytaPLLrn0kVcSLHsPD Ji+K8oLcFroz8w6s6c7ryOgm9mx90U1gX8jvAfXPPoYtJEtAi5NVw4UdBOs2j9YP MTKQyYFD3BHM9F0XPAyWQeRQcqBszpyduLoadANbVsv7DD8NfV3IVJ1DfSPTd/Fl 0BUG570BDRCd7pcDpgDCrBHsEOy1mYUNQwpGS8Faz4XVPgBiNWp4no7ZEDotj66V 67ozet61EgoGltd1r7s9EpDPj/ct+JUt9n5BgtSPMJ2eMSHL1mMIld/lRy0CzNBk m5Ec6TCajTQx0TPMomvTqaHGq+TKmBOyL/M4Qpm1TNO+He7JNagchVicndhgabrm W0ISIZ76fpTsaNw1xhgUGNd0q2j1gCpV9D0HJlw57N12tGvciou6E344kCvc9Sxg pgjkLnfiqqQZFPq58YLXYxC6gEQ0fk1iQuECWDunwBYREqGCqJzNs0fD1lDAlhHw NzdNki5812cmSbzsbHK5 =PzDq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org User Communication List rpm-users@rpm5.org