 | | | Failed attempt at rebuilding RPM database | Failed attempt at rebuilding RPM database 2003-05-03 - By M A Young
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On Sat, 3 May 2003, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> Hello, Everyone :)
> When I attempt to rebuild my corrupted RPM database, following the
> following instructions that I got off the Red Hat 8 list: ...
What makes you think the database is corrupted? Not all errors are the
result of corruption (in particular rpm --rebuilddb issues a harmless db4
error even when it works correctly).
> I get the following result when I do step 6 (I 'm omitting step five from
> this message, as it just proved that my RPM db was hosed:
> db_dump: region error detected; run recovery.
> db_dump: Packages-ORIG: unsupported hash version: 8
> db_dump: open: Packages-ORIG: Invalid argument
Your rpm packages use a later db4 version than your db4 packages (which
seems to be the case for RedHat 9). Looking at
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89931
may help.
> A quick question: I hear a lot about upgrading to the version of RPM
> that is at people.redhat.com/jbj/test-4.1
That is old now. rpm-4.2 is the one which people may have mentioned on
this list, but it may not help you if your database is corrupt.
Michael Young
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