rpmdb: DB_RUNRECOVERY Errors When Using dbaascli on Exacc

Registering a Manually Created database using dbaascli fails

For registering a manually created database on Exacc, you need to create DBNAME.ini file first. This is a cloud registration file by running the following command as the root user on one of the database servers.

In my case,

[root@myexacc01]# dbaascli registerdb registry --action initialize --db MYBLTDB

Fails with.

error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process failederror: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv->>failchkerror: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recoveryerror: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

This is actually not a database or Exacc platform related error. It is a standard RPM database related error.

This indicates that the RPM database under /var/lib/rpm is corrupted or has stale Berkeley DB lock files. As a result, dbaascli cannot complete the requested operation.

To resolve this issue, the RPM DB must be rebuilt.

[root@myexacc01]# mkdir /var/lib/rpm/backup
[root@myexacc01]# cp -a /var/lib/rpm/__db* /var/lib/rpm/backup/
[root@myexacc01]# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
[root@myexacc01]# rpm --quiet -qa
[root@myexacc01]# rpm --rebuilddb
[root@myexacc01]# yum clean all

After rebuilding the rpm database, register command succeeds. Initialize generates the cloud registration file and distributes it to the required cloud registry location (under /var/opt/oracle/creg) on all of the cluster nodes.

Hope it helps.