2014-10-15 23:31 GMT+03:00 William <mattison.compu...@yahoo.com>: > I have F20 on a 64-bit system. I'm a home user with no sysadmin training >> and no real sysadmin experience. I tried to do my weekly patches, and got >> this: >> >> bash.6[~]: yum update >> error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 2156/140591811774272 failed: BDB1507 >> Thread died in Berkeley DB library >> error: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv->failchk: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: >> Fatal error, run database recovery >> error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - (-30973) >> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm >> CRITICAL:yum.main: >> >> Error: rpmdb open failed >> bash.7[~]: >> > To answer Ranjan, > > Has you done this before? > Yes, I've been doing it every week for over a year. This is the first > time I've had a problem. > > > Were you doing this as root or do you have super user status on your > system? > I always do it as root. > > "Alchemist" suggested: > > Do as root > > pkill yum && pkill rpm && rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* && rpmdb > --rebuilddb && sync > > This appeared to have no effect. So I tried the individual pieces as > separate commands. That appeared to work. I then tried the "yum update". > It appears to have worked. Thank-you! > > Follow-up question... > I know that the packages on my work station came from at least two > repositories. I don't recall which. I have a graphics card driver which I > think came from an external(?) repository. I have "xeyes", "xv", and > "xcdroast", which also might have come from "external" repositories. How > can I check that the sequence of commands that "Alchemist" gave me got all > the repositories? > > thanks, > Bill. >
RPMDB is repo unaware and includes all native RPMs. To check package against repo list use yum list or yumdb info [package name] > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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