https://orzechowski.tech/posts/Recent content in Posts on Piotr OrzechowskiHugoenThu, 28 Oct 2021 00:20:20 +0200https://orzechowski.tech/posts/opensuse-tumbleweed-and-rpmdb-error/Sat, 16 May 2020 03:57:42 +0200https://orzechowski.tech/posts/opensuse-tumbleweed-and-rpmdb-error/<h2 id="the-problem"> The Problem <a class="heading-link" href="#the-problem"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>So yeah, during the last <code>sudo zypper dup</code> I saw some weird <code>rpm</code> error (each <code>&lt;num&gt;</code> was actually a different positive integer):</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#e7e9db;background-color:#2f1e2e;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# &lt;num&gt; blob size(-&lt;num&gt;): BAD, &lt;num&gt; + &lt;num&gt; * il(&lt;num&gt;) + dl(-&lt;num&gt;) </span></span></code></pre></div><p>As it turned out, this probably means corrupted <code>rpm</code> database (rpm db). Well, no luck this time&hellip;</p> <p>Both <code>sudo zypper ve</code> and <code>sudo rpm -qa</code> did not show anything alarming, though. But the error was logged.</p>