URPMI got crazy... [solved]

[ilia_kr]

While updating the freshly installed Mandriva 2007.1 One Gnome version urpmi breaks with this massage, that repeats itself in an endless loop:

 

That never happened on One KDE version. Tried to switch mirrors and the error persisted.

Need your advice on this.

Thanks.

Edited August 13, 2007 by ilia_kr

[arctic]

Have you cleaned your cache before adding the new mirrors?

[scarecrow]

Uhhh. sounds like a broken rpm database. The way to rebuild it in Mandriva is described here:

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/urpmi#Using_urpmi

Does it work if you use some "rpm --nosignature" installation switch?

[ilia_kr]

I've tried what you said and here is the response:

[root@mdk Desktop]# man urpmi
[root@mdk Desktop]# urpmi --clean
[root@mdk Desktop]# rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*
[root@mdk Desktop]# rpm --rebuilddb

error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#	1081 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 70771ff3

[arctic]

First of all, it would be safest to clear the lock while in single user mode (in case you didn't). As the system is booting up, it is in single user mode before init can fire off any 'child' daemon processes. When rebuilding the database, make a backup first of /var/lib/rpm!!! A quick and dirty way to take a temporary on-disk backup is:

cd /var/lib 
mkdir rpm-backup 
rsync -av ./rpm/. ./rpm-backup/.

Now try rebuilding again. If it still gives you errors, then try repairing by doing

mv Packages Packages-ORIG 
/usr/lib/rpm/db_dump Packages-ORIG | \ 
/usr/lib/rpm/db_load Packages

Then read all the headers in Packages by doing

rpm -qa

And if that still fails, I suggest that you try to contact e.g. the official mandriva channel on irc and/or submit a bugreport.

[ilia_kr]

It seems like i solved the problem.

After a fail at firs try, i removed all repos, cleaned the chash and then i tried to rebuild the db. This time the rebuild went smoothly. At this point i backed up the RPM folder as arctic suggested. After all that was done i added some repos and successfully updated the system.

 

Thank you all for a help!