Here's the howto list.... http://hermes.afaa.asso.fr/users/pascal/linux/rpm-rebuilddb
a how to on rebuilding the database. James On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 18:15, Dean S. Messing wrote: > 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] > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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