Tom, My test box (installed Sept 6, 2004 with 3.1 and some dag stuff) upgraded just fine. Are you using any other 3rd party tools that access RPM databases? [root at alto usr]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 3.3 (final) [root at alto usr]# rpm -qa |wc -l 693 [root at alto usr]# uname -a Linux alto.4wx.net 2.4.21-20.EL.c0 #1 Thu Sep 9 02:38:04 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Tom Seeley wrote: >Ok, so I've discovered its not a problem with my test box. Yum updating to 3.3 >hoses my rpmdb every time. The actual error is: > >error: db4 error(-30989) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page >not found > >The above is displayed when I run an rpm -qa |wc -l (which only reports 76 >afterwards instead of 657 from before) > >Nothing happened to the machine whilst it was updating, no errors appeared >whilst yum was running. > >After yum has finished there are the following files in /var/lib/rpm: > >__db.001 >__db.002 >__db.003 > >If I delete those files /and then/ do a rpm --rebuilddb I seem to recover. > >At a guess this is probably something todo with updating glibc and/or rpm in the >same transaction, but I'm far from being an expert on these matters. Although >I appear to have found a work-around for this problem, its leaves a bad taste >in my mouth. > >Anybody else have a better solution? > >Tom. > >Quoting Tom Seeley <caosity at tomseeley.co.uk>: > > > >>I'd guess this is probably something pretty specific to my test box, but when >>I >>yum updated to 3.3 my rpmdb got totally hosed. Unfortunately, I didn't save >>the error that occured at the time because a rpm --rebuilddb _appeared_ to >>fix >>the problem. Unfortunately I found out later that I was left with a db that >>only contained a subset of the actual install base. I'm now trying to >>recover >>from the /var/log/rpmpkgs file. >> >>Later I will be adding /var/lib/rpm to my backups.... >> >>Like I said, its probably my machine (its old and naff), but I just thought >>I'd >>share :) >> >>-- >>Tom Seeley >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------- >>This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >>_______________________________________________ >>CentOS mailing list >>CentOS at caosity.org >>http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> > > >-- >Tom Seeley > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at caosity.org >http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >