I was just searching the rpm database for installed apps
I saw this error:
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 2346 blob size(7508): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(21) + dl(3836)
I tried a rebuild of the db as I was unsure of this error the --rebuilddb brought up the same error
Advices welcome
Hi, perhaps this http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-07/msg01725.html and the messages after it will help (especially this : “There is another way: in “/var/adm/backup/rpmdb” you have daily bakcups of that database made by cron (run-crons: suse.de-backup-rpmdb). By default it keeps 5 copies, you can increase the number somewhere in /etc/sysconfig. Once you get a good copy, you only need to worry about what you did the last days(s).” HTH Lenwolf
Well, I’ve never seen this before, but it really looks like a corrupted rpm database IMHO.
–rebuilddb does NOT rebuild the main rpm database (/var/lib/rpm/Packages, which contains the list of installed packages), it only recreates the other dbs that can be inferred by that.
I think you should try to restore the database from one of the backups in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb/.
zypper ve
found a broken dependency and following that --rebuilddb
all was good
Thanks