Hello community!
I installed openSUSE yesterday and all works fine so far.
I’ve tried installing some software using YaST2 and this worked too until this morning: Neither packages I chose in YaST itself nor the security packages found by the kupdateapplet can be installed.
For example: Yesterday I successfully installed csmash (a game). But since I didn’t like it, I removed it. If I try to install it now, I get this in YaST:
Subprocess failed. Error: RPM fehlgeschlagen: rpmdb: page 299: illegal page type or format
rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: error(-30977) getting “Bnormal-hip01.dat” records from Basenames index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->cursor: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: error(-30977) getting “Bnormal-racket.affine” records from Basenames index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->cursor: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: error(-30977) getting “Bnormal-racket01.dat” records from Basenames index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->cursor: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: error(-30977) getting “Bpeck” records from Basenames index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->cursor: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: error(-30977) getting “Bpeck-Larm.affine” records from Basenames index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->cursor: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: error(-30977) getting “Bpeck-Larm01.dat” records from Basenames index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->cursor: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: error(-30977) getting “Bpeck-Lelbow.affine” records from Basenames index
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
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I hope this is a known problem?