[NTLUG:Discuss] RedHat 9 RPM DB seems to be hosed - rebuild? How??

[Clay Ramsey]

Smartctl says that the only thing failing is the POWER_ON_HOURS is
failing - all else seems well......

But the rebuilddb operation is failing... still

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From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
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Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] RedHat 9 RPM DB seems to be hosed -
rebuild? How??

I would be more conserned about backing up data from the laptop hdd and
running a badblocks scan, or run smartctl -H /dev/hda

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6983


On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 17:03, clayramsey1 at comcast.net wrote:
> Hey all - I just ran up2date on my RH9 laptop and was told that the
RPMDB has fatal region errors detected and that I need to run database
recovery.
> 
> So, I run rpm --rebuilddb and I get the same fatal region error
message and a furhter error that I cannot open the packages index.
> 
> So.... what do I do?
> 
> 
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