[Cialug] Fedora - the dreaded rpmq failure

[David Champion]

I've had the same experience - rarely have rpm db problems in Mandriva,
but seems to be fairly frequent in Fedora. Probably something like
Fedora using a crappy version of Berkely DB, or built it with the
--corrupt-db-fortnightly flag, and others have updated or patched theirs.

-dc

Josh More wrote:
> RPM is based on the Berkley DB, which sometimes corrupts.  That's what
> the --rebuilddb is supposed to fix.  If I recall correctly, you used to
> need to go into /var/lib/rpm/ and remove the __* files.  (Best to move
> them instead of deleting them.)
> 
> Interestingly, while a lot of systems use RPM that is back-ended by
> Berkley, I've only seen this problem on RedHat/Fedora boxes.  My SUSE
> and Mandriva boxes seem to be OK.
> 
> Another thing to consider is what used to happen with Red Carpet in the
> early days.
> If you are running a nightly update process, and a repository isn't
> available, rpmq might start cycling.  The solution there is to either
> turn off automatic checking or only use high-availability repositories.
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
>  515-245-7701
> 
> 
> 
>>>> David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> 08/07/07 12:32 PM >>> 
> Anyone have a real solution for the dreaded Fedora rpmq hanging from
> the
> /etc/cron.daily/rpm script (or anything else that does rpm -q)?
> 
> Here's a random googled thread on it...
> 
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-01/msg01564.html
> 
> Noticed this happening on a FC6 box today, I'd forgotten about it, but
> seem to recall this being a problem with Fedora like a couple of years
> ago. Can't believe they haven't solved it yet.
> 
> I'll do a reboot and rpm --rebuilddb later when people aren't using
> it... but would be nice to find a real fix for it.
> 
> -dc
> 
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