[rhn-users] up2date broke up2date RHEL4

[Alfred Hovdestad]

On some older systems (RH8 and RH9), I occasionally had to delete the 
temporary files in /var/lib/rpm/ and rebuild the rpmdb database:


  rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
  rpm --rebuilddb
  rpm -vv --rebuilddb  /* if you want lots of output */

It's been a while since I have had to do this, but it might help (and it 
shouldn't hurt).

   Alfred Hovdestad





John Fulton wrote:
> up2date seems to be broken on one of my Nahant Update 4 servers.  It was
> applying 8 updates yesterday and when it got to the kernel-smp-devel
> package the connection timed out.  Now when I "up2date -u" I get package
> conflict errors and there seems to be data missing from the error
> message (pasted below).
> 
> RHN claims that I need to apply security updates for php and xorg-x11
> (RHSA-2007:0076 & 0003) but up2date complains that I already have them
> when I try to "up2date -i" them by name.  An "up2date --undo" produced
> an AttributeError and I'll paste portions of /var/log/up2date below
> showing the packages that were updated including the error.  I also
> tried "up2date -p" and "rpm --rebuilddb" which didn't seem to make any
> difference.
> 
> Thanks,
>   John
>