[Mageia-discuss] New kernel cant boot and it killed MCC update

KevinO kevin at kevino.org
Tue Aug 28 09:46:05 CEST 2012


On 08/28/2012 12:24 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Hi Kevin et al,
> 
> Sorry for the delay in response, I was away on a short weekend vacation.
> 
> Le 2012-08-24 15:24, KevinO a écrit :
> 
>>> In English mine says:
>>> error: rpmdb: Thread/process 7815/140102385239808 failed: Thread died in Berkeley
>>> DB library
>>> error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
>>> database recovery
>>> error: cannot open Packages index using db4 -  (-30974)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I fixed the second problem by executing (as root):
>>
>> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
>> rpm --rebuilddb
>>
>> This allowed urpmi and the graphical package management applications to work
>> again.
>>
>> I am running the 3.3.6 kernel to make the NVidia driver work, though.
>>
> 
> Thanks! That rebuilt the rpm database. But when I tried to re-boot into the new
> kernel it was then stuck again.
> 
> I then rebooted into the 3.3.6 kernel and checked for/and updated my system and
> tried to re-boot into the new kernel and this seems to have worked.
> 
I was able to get the rpm database straightened out, and can run the 3.3.8 kernel
but only by using the nouvea driver. I still have to run the older, 3.3.6 kernel
to get the NVidia driver to work.

-- 
KevinO


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