Why does yum panic with "rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery" when updating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?
Issue
- Why does yum panic with "rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery" when updating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?
> $ yum update
> ...
> Installing : keyutils 82/588
> Updating : cpp 83/588
> Updating : vim-enhanced 84/588
> Updating : iptables-ipv6 85/588
> Updating : tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api 86/588groupadd: GID 16 is not unique
> useradd: invalid numeric argument 'oprofile'
> Updating : oprofile 87/588
> Updating : evince 88/588
> Updating : gdb 89/588
> Updating : xorg-x11-server-Xvfb 90/588
> Updating : xorg-x11-server-Xnest 91/588
> Updating : mlocate 92/588
> warning: /etc/updatedb.conf created as /etc/updatedb.conf.rpmnew
> Updating : gnome-session 93/588
> Updating : nss-tools 94/588rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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