Yes, You read it right i actually want to corrupt RPMDB for testing purpose. I tried Googling it but all i got was to, how to rebuild it.
So at last i tried
rpm --rebuilddb and killed the process in execution.
Then i verified by
usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages echo $? 0 I need it output 1. which means that RPMDB is corrupt
I just corrupted my rpm database intentionally, or at least made it so rpm errors out, which is what I wanted to accomplish. Just zero out the __db.00* files.
# ls -l /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 17:13 /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 17:13 /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 17:13 /var/lib/rpm/__db.003 # rpm -q filesystem error: db5 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm error: db5 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm package filesystem is not installed 