Re: [suse-sles-e] sles8 corrupt rpm database, how to fix

From: Heiko Helmle (heiko.helmle_at_head.de)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 09:29:07 CET


Message-ID: <45E68ED3.8020700@head.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:29:07 +0100
From: Heiko Helmle <heiko.helmle@head.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] sles8 corrupt rpm database, how to fix

If your crond is running then your sles8 should make regular backups of
the rpm database by itself.

check /var/adm/backup/rpmdb

M.R. Muthukumar schrieb:
> Folks,
>
> We have a corrupt rpm database in one of our sles8
> server. rpm -qa hangs after listing few packages.
> rpm --rebuilddb hangs forever.
>
> I looked at /var/lib/rpm all files except packages.rpm
> says they are Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2,
> native byte-order) where as packages.rpm says its
> data.
>
> Is there a tool to fix this, any/all help is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> -Muthu
>
>
>
>
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