Re: rpm from rescue CD

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange nsk no-ip org>]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:50:46PM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Mar 30, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Bob Tennent wrote:
> 
> >I'm trying to use rpm from the 1st install CD of FC4. I'm trying to
> >re-install glibc packages that didn't get installed properly  
> >leaving the
> >system without ld. I've tried the following:
> >
> >  rpm -U --replacepkgs --root /mnt/sysimage glibc*
> >
> >and am getting
> >
> >  error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000
> >
> >I've tried adding --dbpath /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm but rpm isn't
> >recognizing that option.  What should I do?
> >
> 
> Doing
>     mkdir /var/lib/rpm
> probably resolves the problem.

Shouldn't that be  /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm?

(And I presume /mnt/sysimage was mounted rw.)
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lfr
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