RH 8 RPM Database Recover?

[Patrick1327]

RPM is giving me the following message regardless of the rpm command entered:

[root@Jupiter rpm]# rpm -qa
rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery.
error: db4 error(-30981) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30981)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
no packages
[root@Jupiter rpm]#

I tried to rebuild the database but got the same message:

[root@Jupiter rpm]# rpm --initdb
rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery.
error: db4 error(-30981) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30981)
[root@Jupiter rpm]#
[root@Jupiter rpm]# rpm --rebuilddb
rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery.
error: db4 error(-30981) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index
[root@Jupiter rpm]#

I also checked the man page but it did not mention recovering the database and creating one with the --initdb option also did not work.

Any suggestions?

 

[danielhozac]

Check this page:

http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/

//Daniel