rpm acting odd on fresh install

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 16:25 -0400, tyche wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 June 2006 14:25, Rick Stevens wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > > deleted the db files, had a screen full of key errors go
> > > whipping by.
> >
> > What?  By doing "rm -f __db.*"?  If that's the case, then
> > the filesystem is suspect, kemosabe, and you'd better fix
> > that BEFORE you do anything else.
> 
> sorry, wasnt the rm -f that caused the errors. was the rpm 
> --rebuilddb that caused it. looked like the same key on a few 
> different packages.

Oh?  That's weird.  IIRC, rpm on FC3 did have some issues with big
databases.

> 
> >
> > >  rebuild, same problem, tho i can use -i --force
> > > -- nodeps. but most of the packages installed are there
> > > (gawk for instance, isnt recognized as being installed by
> > > rpm tho it does run)
> >
> > Again, if the "rm -f" stuff spewed errors, you have far,
> > FAR more serious problems.
> >
> > > as for the no support, can always download the source and
> > > recompile. its just getting the source codes that is a
> > > pain.
> > >
> > > tia, will keep trying the rpm files in /var see what is
> > > what in there. will keep ya updated on progress.
> >
> > Please do.
> 
> tyche
> 
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