rpm database corrupted, how to recover?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 12, 2003, Torrey Hoffman <thoffman at arnor.net> wrote:

> While installing some rpms from FreshRPMs.net on my system, rpm
> segfaulted.  It seems to have corrupted the database in the process, and
> now all rpm commands hang.

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb

> So I moved /var/lib/rpm/Packages to /var/lib/rpm/Packages.corrupt

Don't do this.  It's what --rebuilddb would use to rebuild the
databases.

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