Non-blocking error when running yum update/yum install

[ggamba]

On a vanilla installed ArcaOS 5.0.1, after running "yum update" for the first time, I now get the following error message any time I run yum:

[C:\]yum update
arcanoae-rel         | 1.9 kB  00:00
arcanoae-rel/primary |  13 kB  00:00
netlabs-rel          | 2.9 kB  00:00
Impostazione processo di aggiornamento
errore: rpmdbNextIterator: salto h#     240 region trailer: BAD, tag 252444672 t
ype 252510208 offset -252575744 count 252641280
Nessun pacchetto marcato per l'aggiornamento

Packages are updated/installed as expected. Any hint about this? ("salto" = "jump")

[Silvan Scherrer]

please do:
"SET LANG=en_US"
goto to c:\var or any other directory beside a root directory
do "yum update"
post the result here

many thanks

[ggamba]

Thank you Silvan, here it is:

[C:\var]SET LANG=en_US

[C:\var]yum update
arcanoae-rel         | 1.9 kB  00:00
arcanoae-rel/primary |  13 kB  00:00
netlabs-rel          | 2.9 kB  00:00
Setting up Update Process
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     240 region trailer: BAD, tag 252444672
 type 252510208 offset -252575744 count 252641280
No Packages marked for Update

[ggamba]

BTW, I saw no problems on a different machine after installing ArcaOS 5.0.2.

[Silvan Scherrer]

I would try to clean up the metadata first. If this doesn't help I would rebuild the db with:

rpm --rebuilddb

first I would save the complete directory /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm to some /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm.back

the rebuild creates a new directory /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm.rebuild which you need to rename to /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm

I hope one or the other solves your issue.

[ggamba]

Hi Silvan,

"yum clean all" was not enough. I then moved away /@unixroot/var/lib/rpm (copying a backup was not enough) and run "rpm --rebuilddb". Result was ok, thanks!

[C:\DESKTOP]rpm --rebuilddb
[C:\DESKTOP]yum update
warning: Generating 18 missing index(es), please wait...
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

[Silvan Scherrer]

I'm glad it worked. So I close this ticket.