[Mageia-dev] Fatal errors with rpm

[Robert Fox]

On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 18:33 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > Hello Wolfgang -
> >
> > Try the rebuild again:
> > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> >
> > and then simple do:
> > urpmi --auto-update -v
> >
> > That worked for me.  When I tried rpmdrake, I also got the corruption
> > again.
> 
> As I wrote before, this did not work here, I have to erase the lock
> file as well. After that the rebuild works ok.
> 
> As for the segfault - removing a single package via rpmdrake results
> in a segfault, reproducable with any package..
> 

I can confirm now that this has something to do with rpmdrake.  I just
tried an update with only two packages and it failed (window
disappeared) and the rpm database was corrupted again.  If I perform the
update from the command line with urpmi it works fine.

Cheers,
R.Fox