yum update - Fatal error, run database recovery

[Thaidog]

I am getting an error from yum update and Kpackagekit:

[root@asus-m4n82 tylerm]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
rpmdb: page 18816: illegal page type or format
rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument
rpmdb: Packages: pgin failed for page 18816
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbcursor->c_close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
No Packages marked for Update
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30974) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30974) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
rpmdb: File handles still open at environment close
rpmdb: Open file handle: /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpmdb: Open file handle: /var/lib/rpm/Name
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

How do I "run recovery"?

Edit: Ok so it looks like I had som bad ram in my system that caused this - I found a site that told me to do this:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm –rebuilddb
yum clean all

I did this but now when I try something like yum install firefox it pulls in a ton of already installed packages. Any body know how to fix that?

[glennzo]

If this were my system I'd run those commands again and see if anything changes.

[Vector]

Originally Posted by Thaidog

Edit: Ok so it looks like I had som bad ram in my system that caused this - I found a site that told me to do this:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm –rebuilddb
yum clean all

Thanks. That fixed my problem too. I screwed mine up by kill -9ing the process