{"id":154,"date":"2012-07-20T10:59:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T10:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2023-02-01T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:30:24","slug":"rpmdb-panic-fatal-region-error-detected-run-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/technology-hub\/rpmdb-panic-fatal-region-error-detected-run-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You receive the error below the time you try to install, remove, check the rpm on your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting\/vps-hosting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VPS<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting\/dedicated-servers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dedicated server<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery<br \/>\nerror: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv-&gt;open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery<br \/>\nerror: cannot open Packages index using db3 &#8211;&nbsp; (-30978)<br \/>\nerror: cannot open Packages database in \/var\/lib\/rpm<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is because of the corrupt rpm database on your server. There is a need to clean OR rebuild the repo on you server.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>yum clean all<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>rm -f \/var\/lib\/rpm\/__db*<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The above commands will remove rpm database packages and clean yum cache. Removing it won\u2019t affect the current rpm\u2019s installed. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>rpm \u2013rebuilddb<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Now, rebuild the rpm database with command below. It might take a while to rebuild it. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>yum update \u2013y<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Now, update yum with command above and you are good to use rpm now. If you still face any issues, feel free to contact our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/contact.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support team<\/a> &amp; they will get rid of issues you face. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You receive the error below the time you try to install, remove, check the rpm on your VPS OR dedicated server. rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv-&gt;open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 &#8211;&nbsp; (-30978) error: cannot open Packages database in&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/technology-hub\/rpmdb-panic-fatal-region-error-detected-run-recovery\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[38,39],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-hub","tag-rebuild-rpm-database","tag-rpm-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15397,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/15397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}