Re: hosed RPM

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel infinity-ltd com>]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Okay, my very first hosed rpmdb.  I tried rebuilddb, no go.  I tried
> initdb /then/ rebuilddb no go.  Any other ideas?  Fortunately, this
> isn't a production system (yet) so I can blow it away if I need to.  I
> was running up2date on the box from ssh and for some reason sshd died in
> the middle of it.
> 
Using the initdb option on a working system is not a good idea. What
it does is create a new, empty RPM database. I hope you backed up
the database before trying to fix the problem.

Mikkel
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