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

Jim Whitby jim at whitby-jr.org
Sat Aug 25 03:24:30 CEST 2012


On 08/24/2012 09:05 PM, Jim Whitby wrote:
> On 08/24/2012 03:24 PM, KevinO wrote:
>> On 08/24/2012 11:21 AM, Jim Whitby wrote:
> <snip>
>>>
>>> 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! Will give it a shot.
>
Yes. That worked just fine. Running the new kernel and nvidia ( well, I 
think so anyway, the machine is not here, but X and kdm are  running ).

Again Thanks!


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