On Mon, Feb 23, 2009, Bart Schaefer wrote: >Over the weekend my workstation (still on CentOS 3) started showing >SMART errors, so we shut it down and moved everything onto a new >drive. On reboot, the RPM database reports as corrupted and "rpm >--rebuilddb" segmentation faults. > >Is there any reasonable way to recover from this, short of a complete >reinstall? The machine is otherwise up though it's quite likely some >files have been lost. You may be able to get things going again with the bdb recover script, /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_recover. I think this should be a berkeley DB recovery routine that is specific to the version being used by rpm. I have recovered the OpenPKG rpm database using this technique using the standard bdb db_recover program. If I am not mistaken, the appropriate command would be: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_recover -h /var/lib/rpm Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation. -- Johnny Hart