[mythtv-users] Re: OT: rpm and apt-get broken

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
Sun Feb 15 17:37:15 EST 2004


On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:48:03PM -0800, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2004, at 11:45, Vinton Coffman wrote:
> >error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     678 blob size(2232): BAD, 8 
> >+ 16 * il(67) + dl(1828)

eeeeck! :(

> >Can someone please help?
> 
> I can try... First, did you "# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*"? If not, try 
> that, then run rpm --rebuilddb again. If that doesn't work, it looks 
> like you rpm keys might have been tanked somehow. Try moving Pubkeys 
> out of /var/lib/rpm/, then try rebuilding again. You'll have to 
> reimport rpm signing keys after that, if it actually works... If not, 
> ouch. Very Bad Things do occasionally happen to rpm databases that are 
> nearly impossible to recover from. :-\

Also try

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm --rebuilddb

(after rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*) and make sure no other process
(rpm/apt/yum/rcd/...) accesses the rpm database during the rebuild process.

I wish you luck ... :(
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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