[Gllug] Broken RPM Database

[Lee, Paul]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:30:45AM +0000, Lee, Paul wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>Has anyone on the list successfully rebuilt their RPM database? I don't 
>>mean rpm --rebuilddb. I've tried that and that was only partially 
>>successful. This partly rebuilt a list of 71 packages (when the real 
>>number will be over 300). rpm -Va reveals a list of failed dependencies.
>>
>>I had just carried out an update of my Centos 3.6 using yum when I 
>>discovered rpm was broken with `error: db4 error(-30989) from 
>>dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found` - I think 
>>it might be this bug..

> If the DB is totally trashed, then look at the various /var/log/rpmpkgs
> Hopefully one of the backups will have the complete list of RPMs. At
> which point you can re-populate the RPM db by re-installing each RPM
> using the --justdb  flag to tell it only to updat the database.

Thanks for your help. They do indeed contain a list of packages pre update.

> Then again a re-install might be simpler
> 

Very Possibly. I've got things working "sort of" by rsyncing the 
/var/lib/rpm from another Centos 3.6 box. The significant package 
differences between the two systems would be in the php/mysql rpm packages.

On the damaged box I was using third party RPMS to use later versions of 
PHP/MySQL.

Apart from that the two systems should be updated to the same level.

This problem may provide the motivation to do a clean install and 
upgrade to Centos 4 however ;o) )

Paul

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