[rhn-users] RPM doesn't work!

[Corné Beerse]

Philippe B. Laval wrote:

> Thanks, you just solved one of the many problems I have been having with
> this new RedHat.

It's an old problem. I hit it with RH9 and I'm surprised to see it in the RH-EL 
series... The root of the problem in RH9 was the database used for rpm, it had a 
flaw and should be solved with a new version of RH. Unfortunatly it is not 
solved in RH-EL-U3...


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> Dr. Philippe B. Laval
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> Kennesaw State University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of James P
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 1:27 PM
> To: Red Hat Network Users List
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RPM doesn't work!
> 
> Later versions of RPM are kind of flaky. I have had this problem in 
> the past and have always been abel to fix it by rebuilding the rpm 
> database. Do this:
> 
> cd /var/lib/rpm
> mv __db* ..
> rpmdb --rebuilddb
> 
> It will take a few minutes to recreate the __db* files. Should work 
> after that.
> 
> If something goes wrong, you can restore by moving the __db* files 
> back to their original locations. Otherwise, you can remove them 
> after the rebuild.
> 
> Mureika, Jonas wrote:
> 
>>I just received my brand new Dell Precision 470 workstation with RH WS
> 
> 3.0 installed -- and RPM doesn't work either from the command line or
> the GUI package install program.  The process simply hangs and I can't
> even Ctrl-C it (have to use kill -9!).
> 
>>Has anyone else had this problem, or can someone offer a solution?
> 
> It's very frustrating, as I feel that I may have received a bad OS
> install.  Thanks.
> 
>>--JRM
>>
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