I replied privately but perhaps useful. Begin forwarded message: >> >> ----- Forwarded message from Marc MERLIN <marc_...@merlins.org> ----- >> >> From: Marc MERLIN <marc_...@merlins.org> >> To: rpm-users@rpm5.org >> Subject: rpmdb: c_put: attempt to modify a read-only tree >> >> After upgrading rpm on a system from 4.0.2 to 4.4.1, I'm seeing this: >> >> muny20:/lib# rpm -e --test sed >> rpmdb: c_put: attempt to modify a read-only tree >> error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied >> rpmdb: c_put: attempt to modify a read-only tree >> error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied >> rpmdb: c_put: attempt to modify a read-only tree >> error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied >> error: Failed dependencies: >> sed is needed by (installed) console-tools-19990829-34.i386 >> sed is needed by (installed) pam-0.74-22.i386 >> /bin/sed is needed by (installed) initscripts-5.84-1.i386 >> > > Hmmm ... I personally have never seen this error msg that I recall ... > > what platform and vendor distro? > > what version of rpm is in use for upgrade, 4.0.2 or 4.4.1? > > what version of Berkeley DB? These are really old RPM versions and I've > forgotten details. > > (aside) > Hmmm, I'd skip rpm-4.4.1 (was it SuSE who used? I fergit ...) not > my best effort ... and 4.4.2 should be easy to upgrade to. > > >> It doesn't quite seem to stop rpm from working, but it's worrisome and I >> can't >> quite find what it means. >> > > There's gonna be data loss (because db->c_put was involved). > > But --rebuilddb afterwards will fix all the indices (except for Packages, > do rpm -qa | sort before and after looking for packages that go *POOF*). > > Note also that rpm checks _EVERY_ return code from Berkeley DB, so > you don't have to get too paranoid about mysterious internal crud. > You should get an error msg as above for all anomolies. > > I'd also look carefully for something really odd, like rpm reading some > fishy configuration (strace -e open should catch), or chattr(1) on a database > file, > or an rpmdb on some non ext2/ext3 file system. > > hth > > 73 de Jeff
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