Bug 137752

Summary: Kernel update (automatic Susewatcher update) Suse 10 (Security update)
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Andreas Fueglistaler <andreas.fueglistaler>
Component: Update ProblemsAssignee: E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: Other   
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Description Andreas Fueglistaler 2005-12-09 09:15:40 UTC 
When ever I do an automatic update because of the Susewatcher, recommended by Susewatcher (Suse 10):
Product:

kernel-xen-nongpl: Applying delta ... Ok
Installing kernel: "The Linux Kernel" Error

I get this error when applying the patch:

error: db4 error(-30978) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30978) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

Any idea what it is .... I tried it many times always the same errors!

Regards
Andy
Comment 1 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-12-09 17:27:02 UTC 
That sounds very much like your RPM database is corrupted. 
Please check on the command line:

    rpm -qa

This should give you a list of all packages that are installed.
Very likely you will get an error message there, too if your RPM DB is corrupted.
If this is the case, try (as root)

    rpm --rebuilddb

What could have caused such a RPM DB corruption is anyone's guess. You might want to check your hard disk with the smartmontools - maybe it is dying.
Comment 2 Andreas Fueglistaler 2005-12-09 20:12:11 UTC 
rpm -qa 

did run through without any problem
Comment 3 Andreas Fueglistaler 2005-12-12 14:28:04 UTC 
Close bug! After running "rpm --rebuilddb" the Kernel update did run through! Even the "rpm -qa" did not report any problems listing all rpm packages ....

Thanks for your help!
Comment 4 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-12-13 15:17:25 UTC 
fixed