Re: FN-FORUM: Fedora Problems

date posted 7th January 2005 16:33

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Alan Lloyd wrote:

> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
> error, run database recovery
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>
> Any ideas would be good. Save me waiting for oneandone support :-(

You could try 'rpm -vv --rebuilddb' but read
http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ first.

HTH (but I wouldn't repair it on a Friday ;-),

Graeme -