I know this has come up before, but I can't seem to find the solution in the archives (other than re-installing).
My RPM database seems to have gotten corrupted. If I do: rpm -qa it hangs after listing most (but not all) of my installed packages. I tried to do: rpm --rebuilddb but this seems to go into an infinite loop. It will begin rebuilding in the /var/lib directory but after some time the load average jumps up one unit. After some more time it jumps up another unit (to three) and the files in the re-build directory just keep getting overwritten. Is there any way to reconstruct the database? This system has a great deal of out-of-distribution software (like win4lin, scilab, selected cooker stuff, nvidia drivers, sun java rpms, &c.) which would take hours to re-install. All was well a couple of weeks ago. Since then I've done one or two updates from the Mandrake update site. I have no idea how the DB got corrupted. System: Mdk 9.0 will all applicable updates as of 27th Dec 2002. rpm -q rpm: rpm-4.0.4-19mdk Thanks in advance. I hope someone here can save my bacon! Dean S. Messing Display Algorithms & Visual Optimization Lab Information Systems Technologies Dept. Sharp Laboratories of America E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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