On 08/24/2012 11:21 AM, Jim Whitby wrote: > On 08/24/2012 06:45 AM, Marc Paré wrote: >> Yikes! I just did the update, but my screen froze, so, I rebooted and could >> not >> boot. Something about "Startign wait for Plymouth boot screen to quit". >> >> So I rebooted into the previous kernel 3.3.6 and tried to do updates, but now >> my MCC updates is munched! It says "couldn't open RPM DB() AT >> USR/LIB/PERL5/VENDOR". -- >> >> I tried "rpm --rebuilddb" in Konsole but it says: >> >> erreur: rpmdb: Thread/process 25894/139895115867904 failed: Thread died in >> Berkeley DB library >> erreur: erreur db4(-30974) de dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, >> run >> database recovery >> erreur: ne peut ouvrir l'index Packages en utilisant db4 - (-30974) >> >> >> Any ideas on how to fixed this? >> >> Also, when I boot into safe mode and I do Drakconf, it says to update >> task-x11 >> and the system offers to download it; but when I try to do this it doesn't >> work. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Marc >> >> > 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. -- KevinO
