[wellylug] rpm error

[Mark Signal]

well I rebooted the box remotely and it didnt come back up (not good 
with live web sites on it). Two hard resets later got it going again but 
somethings screwed. :(

Is more likely a faulty disk as opposed to software corruption?

cheers

Mark

Ian Sterling wrote:
> Yeah, I was about to say sounds like either file corruption or disk
> corruption.  Any time I've had anything like this it's been because of
> a bad disk.  (Yeah, I've owned several IBM "Deathstar" DeskStar
> drives...)
> 
> --Ian...
> 
> On 5/25/05, Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> 
>>Sounds like the files are corrupt to me.
>>
>>
>>>Anyone got any ideas what has caused this when I tried installing 2 rpms?
>>>
>>>
>>>rpmdb: read: 0x40068df4, 4096: Input/output error
>>>rpmdb: read: 0x40063cb4, 4096: Input/output error
>>>rpmdb: read: 0x4005f774, 4096: Input/output error
>>>rpmdb: read: 0x4005f774, 4096: Input/output error
>>>rpmdb: read: 0x4005f774, 4096: Input/output error
>>>rpmdb: read: 0x4005d6f4, 4096: Input/output error
>>>rpmdb: read: 0x4005c6b4, 4096: Input/output error
>>>rpmdb: read: 0x4005c6b4, 4096: Input/output error
>>>
>>>and with second rpm
>>>
>>>
>>># rpm -Uvh rsync-2.6.2-1.noarch.rpm
>>>Preparing...                rpmdb: read: 0x4005caf4, 4096: Input/output
>>>error
>>>error: db4 error(5) from dbcursor->c_get: Input/output error
>>>#####################                       ( 50%)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Mark Signal
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>>>Regards
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