RPM stopped working

[Thomas Cameron]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 21:08 +0100, Leon Stringer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 09:15 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > Then remove all the __db* files in /var/lib/rpm, maybe like this:
> > 
> > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> 
> Thanks for your post. But I don't have any __db* files:
> 
> ls /var/lib/rpm:
> 
> Triggername     Requirename     Packages    Filemd5s
> Sigmd5          Pubkeys         Name        Dirnames
> Sha1header      Provideversion  Installtid  Conflictname
> Requireversion  Providename     Group       Basenames

You don't???  That's odd.

Anyway - have you tried to reboot (to make sure that there are no hung
rpm processes) and rpm --rebuilddb?

Thomas