rpm -Rebuilddb problems
Naheem Zaffar
naheemzaffar at gmail.com
Sun Aug 1 20:16:20 UTC 2004
Just searched for the files; when I try to delete the files from the
search; it says 'could not move '__db.001' The Document does not
exist'.
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:47:24 +0100, Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I checked in /var/lib/rpm
>
> the __db.* files do not exist. hmm but still cannot -rebuilddb
>
> The var/lib/rpm Folder has the permissions: drwxr-xr-x 755 file owner: rpm
>
> <Hey,
>
> <Looks like your DB cache files or whatever may be corrupt. Before you
> <do ANYTHING else make sure you backup your /var/lib/rpm
>
> This is A MUST.
>
> After you've backed it up, try moving the __db.001 __db.002 __db.003
> files to a different directory and then try to rebuild the db.
>
> I'm not really sure this is the problem, but its worth a try, since you
> make a backup first it can't really hurt to try. And check the
> permissions on those three __db files make sure they are set to
> 0644/-rw-r--r--.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> sbHey,
>
> Looks like your DB cache files or whatever may be corrupt. Before you
> do ANYTHING else make sure you backup your /var/lib/rpm
>
> This is A MUST.
>
> After you've backed it up, try moving the __db.001 __db.002 __db.003
> files to a different directory and then try to rebuild the db.
>
> I'm not really sure this is the problem, but its worth a try, since you
> make a backup first it can't really hurt to try. And check the
> permissions on those three __db files make sure they are set to
> 0644/-rw-r--r--.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> sb
>
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