Re: RPM Problem

["Alan Mead" <amead8695 home com>]

You have recent backups?  On the assumption that it's a damaged database,
you could restore the last good backup and see if that fixes it...  I'd
probably backup my existing database just in case.

-Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Speed" <alex luckymonkey co uk>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: RPM Problem


> Apart from submitting a bug report, and then not being able to use RPM
> anymore, there is nothing I can do to recover it?
>
> Alex
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Cox" <bcox virtualschool edu>
> To: <redhat-list redhat com>
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 4:30 PM
> Subject: Re: RPM Problem
>
>
> > On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:42:32 +0100
> > "Alex Speed" <alex luckymonkey co uk> wrote:
> >
> > This is almost certainly a damaged RPM database (/var/lib/rpm). Go to
> redhat.com and search bugzilla for rpm crash and similar. Submit a report
if
> the answers aren't there. RPM's developer is very helpful. I've been thru
> this with him personally.
> >
> > He'll probably want you to install a prerelease rpm which contains code
to
> prevent this in the future. Take this advice with great caution; the
> prerelease version introduces incompatibilities with all sorts of other
> stuff (bzip, gnorpm, kde, etc). I've given up for now on fixing for this
> sideeffect of the cure.
> >
> > > I have Rh7.1 installed, and everything was hunkey dorey, until for
some
> > > reason RPM stopped working, just giving Segmentation Errors - so now I
> can't
> > > remove or add files via RPM.
> > >
> > > I have tried re-installing RPM (from an RPM) - but that didn't work,
it
> > > crashed
> > > I have tried installing RPM from source (from www.rpm.com) but that
> hasn't
> > > solved the problem
> > > I have tried to --rebuild the database, in case that was the problem,
> but it
> > > crashed doing that
> > >
> > > I really need to sort this problem out!
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Snoopy