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...g out during the post-install section. I was able to send a debug to a remote system. I've never looked through an install debug log before, but everything seems to be in order until after the "tar" install, at which point I get the following error: error: db4 error(-30977) from dbcursor->c_put: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery This db4 error runs until the system finally notices a crash. This box ran centos 4.x for over a year without a problem. Supermicro motherboard Intel 3.2 gig Xeon procs, x2 8 gigs memory 3ware 9550 12port SATA 3ware 8006 2 port SATA...

I'd guess this is probably something pretty specific to my test box, but when I yum updated to 3.3 my rpmdb got totally hosed. Unfortunately, I didn't save the error that occured at the time because a rpm --rebuilddb _appeared_ to fix the problem. Unfortunately I found out later that I was left with a db that only contained a subset of the actual install base. I'm now trying to