Re: RPM

[akonstam trinity edu]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to fix rpm when it constantly says it cannot access the
> database in /var/lib/rpm?
> 
> I'm still trying to fix the same box which is looking for the wrong
> kernel version when loading X
> 
> TTFN
Well ther are two things you might do:
1. Look at the permissions on the /var/lib/rpm. They should be
something like this:
drwxr-xr-x    2 rpm      rpm          4096 May 27 17:31 /var/lib/rpm

2. It might be worthwhile to erase the __db.* files in that directory
and then rebuild the rpm database.
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