Do you have the rpm database locked by a zombie/dead/half-dead/forgotton rpm process somewhere? check all your processes and kill off rpm related ones?
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 16:18, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 17 January 2003 12:14 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Friday 17 January 2003 16:05, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > I don't know what happened or when but I cannot do anything with rpm > > > except make simple queries. VERY simple queries. And I cannot do a > > > database rebuild either. I have been trying to install/reinstall all the > > > latest Mandrake rpm-* rpms but I cannot do it. At first, I tried doing a > [...] > > > How do I FORCE rpm to install an rpm regardless of whatever shape the rpm > > > database is? What if I delete the rpm database? What filename and where > > > is the database? > > > > > > Help please. I'm screwed royal at this point. If one loses the ability > > > to use rpm on an rpm-dependent distro, one is HOSED. > > > > > > praedor > > > > Does 'urpmi' fail too, or is this just 'rpm' that won't work? > > urpmi also fails to function. The commands I used from > http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon mostly failed (the sites listed either don't > exist or refuse connections). I was TRYING to get sites closest to me, as > many US sites as possible but almost all failed. > > Urpmi and rpm are dead and useless. > > - -- > Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. > - - Friedrich Nietzsche. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+KCzn1i/6R1B/Yh0RAu87AJ0QJuNYevnDfrT83ZUtu1AtOXxChwCeOjqM > C36YC/0GvtN8GRYr267ILwU= > =QC3q > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Azrael ("\''/").___..--'''"-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002
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