[SOLVED for now]I broke my rpm database?

[mark9117]

Brand new Mageia 5 install. I had my first round of updates today. Ran the updates and got an error. Seems to be related to a package. Scouring Google searches seems to indicate that I need to uninstall a package and/or rebuild the rpm database. That last step seems pretty straitforward, but I can't find the command or switch that rebuilds the rpm database.

Here is the error from "rpm -qa":

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kfind-4.14.3-1.mga5
:error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2336 blob size(3784): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(-2119925340) + dl(-2119925340)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2335 blob size(63088): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(1700869985) + dl(3749476)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2332 blob size(3572): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(71) + dl(17812)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2333 blob size(5748): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(841823022) + dl(1835491634)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2338 blob size(19332): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(1761301884) + dl(1761301884)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2331 blob size(18956): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(66) + dl(14168)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2337 blob size(85564): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(808727349) + dl(1650669368)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2334 blob size(15232): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(1651732332) + dl(1702126948)
lib64gweather3_6-3.14.3-1.mga5


I bookended that information with the programs that show up as listed. Is one of those packages at fault? Is there some way to rebuild the rpm database, and is that likely to fix it?

Has anybody seen this before?

Thanks.

Mark

[jkerr82508]

There is an open bug report:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16197

To rebuild the rpm data base, as root execute the following two commands:

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rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb

Jim

[mark9117]

I appreciate the assistance Jim. Unfortunately, no joy:

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# rpm --rebuilddb
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2336 blob size(3784): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(-2119925340) + dl(-2119925340)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2335 blob size(63088): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(1700869985) + dl(3749476)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2332 blob size(3572): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(71) + dl(17812)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2333 blob size(5748): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(841823022) + dl(1835491634)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2338 blob size(19332): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(1761301884) + dl(1761301884)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2331 blob size(18956): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(66) + dl(14168)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2337 blob size(85564): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(808727349) + dl(1650669368)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2334 blob size(15232): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(1651732332) + dl(1702126948)


Still looking for solutions.

Mark

[mark9117]

Sorry, I didn't see that second message you sent before I posted.

Update: I rebuilt the db and just installed a package with no error. I'll shelve this for now and see if it show up again, and/or see if an update patches.

I do appreciate the time and attention.

I'll mark this solved for now.

Mark