 | | | Failed attempt at rebuilding RPM database | Failed attempt at rebuilding RPM database 2003-05-03 - By Steven P. Ulrick
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On 03 May 2003 08:52:56 -0700
Z <zleite@(protected) > wrote:
> Also, I got rpm to work for root on kernel 2.5.68 by creating
> /etc/rpm/macros(renaming etc/macros.specspo - what__ that anyway?) and
> adding
>
> %__dbi_cdb create cdb mpool mp_mmapsize=16Mb mp_size=1Mb private
>
> AS Jeff Johnson suggested. Otherwise no go.
Hello, Z :)
I did everything that you said (I put "%__dbi_cdb create cdb mpool
mp_mmapsize=16Mb mp_size=1Mb private " in the file that I had just
renamed "macros " (the one that was formerly named "macros.specspo ")) and
I rebooted.
After refollowing the directions that I quoted (and you re-quoted) in a
previous message, when I ran "db_verify Packages ", I got the following
error:
db_verify: Old or incorrect DB version; extraneous errors may result
db_verify: DB- >verify: Packages: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification
failed
This appears to be an error message that I haven 't seen yet, and it fits
in perfectly with what Jeff Johnson said:
"Ah, that 's db-4.0.14 vs. db-4.1.25 incompatibility. "
Because I am running Red Hat 9, the version of db4 on my system is
4.0.14 (I had to check the installation cd 's, as "rpm -qa " is completely
dead. If I believed it 's output, then I have no RPM 's installed :)
One new point of clarification: my problem is not related to a specific
package, like in the bug report. Everything I 've tried to run works
just as well as it did before, it 's just that I can 't install RPM 's,
erase RPM 's or run any RPM query 's. (The statement about not being able
to install RPM 's needs a little clarification: If I run "rpm (-ivh,
-Uvh, -Fvh) ", I get a full list of dependencies (I assume this is
because my RPM database is non-operational.) If I add "--nodeps ", then
the installation proceeds as normal. Of course, I never needed to add
"--nodeps " before, and if I had done so on a regular basis, especially
with official Red Hat updates, that would have been kind of stupid)
I just tried a test:
1. ran "gnome-breakout " from the command line. Got "command not found ",
which was expected, because I hadn 't reinstalled it since my last
install.
2. Tried "rpm -ivh " and "rpm -Uvh " on the "gnome-breakout " RPM, and I
got a list of all its dependencies.
3. Ran "rpm -Uvh --nodeps " on the "gnome-breakout " RPM and the
installation proceeded as normal.
4. Ran "gnome-breakout " from the command line, with the result that I
just played a game on my machine that shouldn 't work, considering that
the output of "rpm -Uvh " on that RPM gave me a dependency list of 25
libraries that were "missing " and 10 RPM 's that were suggested to fix
the dependencies! (all of which were installed when I installed Red Hat
9, and none of which have I removed since then)
Well, that 's all for now :)
Thanks again to everyone who has given advice so far :) It looks like
we are making progress :)
Steven P. Ulrick
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