{"id":676,"date":"2013-03-18T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T13:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2013-03-18T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:08:16","slug":"dreamplug-and-yum-still-problems-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Dreamplug and Yum – Still Problems, after all these Years.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since first running yum<\/strong> on the Dreamplug<\/strong>, over a year ago, I have had intermittent problems with yum\/rpm ‘hanging’ for no apparent reason.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There were no errors reported, and – for a time – everything just seemed to work OK..<\/p>\n

Now I have just attempted to do an install of xfce4<\/strong> on the system, with approximately 240 packages, and yum\/rpm has been hanging after approximately every 40 updates..<\/p>\n

I found that just leaving it alone, the updates eventually completed, but then gave db errors:<\/p>\n

………..<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 yp-tools.armv5tel 0:2.12-11.fc18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 ypbind.armv5tel 3:1.36-7.fc18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 yum.noarch 0:3.4.3-51.fc18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 yum-langpacks.noarch 0:0.3.0-4.fc18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Complete!<\/strong>
\nerror: rpmdb: BDB0060 PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery<\/strong>
\nerror: db5 error(-30973) from db->close: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery<\/strong>
\nerror: rpmdb: BDB0060 PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery<\/strong>
\nerror: db5 error(-30973) from db->close: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery<\/strong>
\nerror: rpmdb: BDB0060 PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery<\/strong>
\nerror: db5 error(-30973) from db->close: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery<\/strong>
\nerror: rpmdb: BDB1581 File handles still open at environment close<\/strong>
\nerror: rpmdb: BDB1582 Open file handle: \/var\/lib\/rpm\/__db.001<\/strong>
\nerror: rpmdb: BDB1582 Open file handle: \/var\/lib\/rpm\/__db.002<\/strong>
\nerror: rpmdb: BDB1582 Open file handle: \/var\/lib\/rpm\/__db.003<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fix is straightforward enough..\u00a0\u00a0 just # rm -f \/var\/lib\/rpm\/__db*<\/strong><\/em>, and then # rpm –rebuilddb<\/em><\/strong> should fix it.<\/p>\n

If you find – as I did – that all this leaves phantom ‘unfinished’ transactions, and ‘duplicates’, then install yum-utils<\/strong>,
\nand then: # package-cleanup –cleandupes<\/strong><\/em>, and # yum-complete-transaction –cleanup-only<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I wonder if there is some ongoing problem with the old Berkeley db and the operating environment on the Dreamplug.? \u00a0 I haven’t had this problem on other arm systems, the Raspberry Pi and APC (although the APC Fedora distro – and kernel – is such an antique, that very little ever gets updated, any more..)<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 March 18th, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since first running yum on the Dreamplug, over a year ago, I have had intermittent problems with yum\/rpm ‘hanging’ for no apparent reason.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There were no errors reported, and – for a time – everything just seemed to work OK.. Now I have just attempted to do an install of xfce4 on the system, with approximately …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,10],"tags":[1174,472,471,136,157,473,328,418,432],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-dreamplug","category-fedora","tag-arm","tag-clean-up-duplicates","tag-db-errors","tag-dreamplug-2","tag-fedora-18","tag-remove-unfinished-transactions","tag-rpm","tag-workaround","tag-yum-hang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}