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On Sunday 06 February 2005 04:44 pm, Craig White wrote:
> ----
> always a good idea to format/bad block check - it just takes time ;-)
>
> As for how it got this way?  Who knows?  Bad karma?  Did you kick the
> cat?
>
> Did you run out of disk space on /var when doing some update?

This is possible but only some time ago before I added a second drive.  I am 
pretty sure I had done an update since that out of space encounter.  (Always 
check for lots of room before dumping a digital video into the hard drive!)

> Since Fedora uses sleepycat to manage the DB's here, did you do
> something with DB4 like install a new version compiled from source or
> something?

Not on purpose.

> ----
> the problem seems to be it didn't add any entries into 'Packages' as
> this is in a temp folder called /var/lib/rpmbuilddb.16296/Packages
> before it finishes.
>
> you have to go through the steps listed...

If I was not clear before, let me be so now.  I did all the steps you listed 
to no appearent effect.  The --rebuilddb output was part of doing those 
steps.

db_verify reports no errors but I still have no database.

> the command db_dump Packages > Packages.txt will create a large text
> dump of what is in Packages but even on a working system, it's mostly
> incomprehensible to me.

db_dump produces lots hex numbers, understandably incomprehensible.  The 
header I get is:

# db_dump Packages
VERSION=3
format=bytevalue
type=hash
h_nelem=4
db_pagesize=4096
HEADER=END

But I don't think that is much help.

This is an interesting academic exercise but I don't think we will find a 
solution.  Like I said, I'll just update to FC3 and be done with the issue.  
Grates me to not "really solve" it but I have found no answers since this 
path you found has not helped.

Alan
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