[Yum] db4 error(-30987) from db

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Martin Vogt wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I just updated around 2000 rpm, after this I geht many of these errors(?):
>
>> mdadm-3.0-18.1.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is not!
>> yast2-squid-2.17.10-1.32.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is >not!
>> epiphany-devel-2.24.1-2.40.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is >not!
>> libtalloc1-3.2.7-11.6.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is not!
>> gnucash-2.2.7-1.35.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is not!
>
> yum does not terminate. And if I attach an strace the last line is:
>
>> pxe3:~ # strace -p 4776 -f
>> Process 4776 attached - interrupt to quit
>> write(1814, "error: db4 error(-30987) from db"..., 90
>
> CTRL+C terminated yum.
>

this is pretty much definitely inside rpm. :( Has suse bumped their rpm 
version up? I know more recent releases from rpm.org have fixed A LOT of 
bugs.

-sv