Re: Faulty RPM on rh8

[David <djdave bigpond net au>]

On 29 Nov 2002, Kevin Breit wrote:
> Hey,
> 	I have a mostly new Red Hat 8 install (two days).  When I do rpm -Uvh
> anything it just sits there and doesn't do anything with the rpm.  Same
> goes for anything that uses RPM.  How can I fix this?

- kill all rpm processes
- rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
- install rpm-4.1-9 from ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/test-4.1/

rpm-4.1-9 doesn't fix the problem for me, but it's an improvement.

Search through https://bugzilla.redhat.com for more info.

David.