[Mageia-dev] Fatal errors with rpm

[Wolfgang Bornath]

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.

-- 
wobo