Comments on: HowTo recover from a corrupt rpm database

By: Mathijs

Mathijs — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:52:10 +0000

This solution worked perfectly for my CentOS server, thank you!

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:47:36 +0000

Thank you for your excellent instructions; they fixed my Fedora 15 installation nicely. It has now been a few weeks, and no package problems have resurfaced.

By: HRJ

HRJ — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:18:52 +0000

Thank you! Saved my day!

By: jon

jon — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:46:31 +0000

thank you!

By: javad

javad — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:36:46 +0000

Thank you so much.

I was installing some packages that system encountered restart due to power fail; and then I see that I can’t install any software. It was Berkeley DB error and your tutorial helped me build corrupted db again.

By: Lamont Granquist

Lamont Granquist — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:43:15 +0000

might want to try running:

rpmdb –rebuilddb

note that the command is “rpmdb” rather than “rpm”

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By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:39:42 +0000

I am new to running a dedicated server. The root panel tells me RPM is corrupt.

my question is before I da anything is. What does RPM actually do, is it to do with the server speed of the system and uploading servers.

I ask this because I found this looking at why this server was so slow.

Cheers

By: paul

paul — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:37:48 +0000

Thank you so much! I was struggling with this for hours and finally your suggestion about deleting __db* was what I was missing! THANK YOU!

By: marius

marius — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:42:41 +0000

@Rohan: if you have selinux enabled you might want to try to disable that, and try again. If still doesn’t work run a strace and see where it hits the wall.