Re: rpm question

[Jack Bowling <jbinpg shaw ca>]

** Reply to message from Barry Johnson <redhat baj us> on Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:18:35 -0400


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> RedHat 9, fresh install.
>  
> rpm -i perl-CGI-2.81-88.i386.rpm
>  
> Entered the command and nothing happened for 10 minutes and it seemed my
> session had locked up, so I disconnected and reconnected.  The process
> was orphaned, so I killed it.
>  
> Now, just running rpm -qa doesn't seem to work.  I entered the command
> 10 minutes ago and it's still sitting there with no apparent activity.
>  
> Any ideas on how to fix the problem?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> -Ed

> I have run into similar weird problems with rpm, sometimes just
> rebuilding the rpm database fixed my problems.  Rpm --rebuilddb as root
> 
> Barry Johnson
> 

Try doing this first (as root):

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

then if that doesn't work try:

rpm --rebuilddb


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jb