-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks all. I will keep your suggestions in my good-to-know file. As it turns out, I didn't have to do any of this stuff, at least this time or exactly as suggested.
I had tried running rebuilddb several times which produced a spike of CPU activity followed by nothing. I had then tried installing several rpms with the same result as I described previously. As a user I could get individual rpms to show up (ie, "rpm -q kdebase" would work). I could even do this as root. If I tried a broader query (rpm -qa|grep <search term>) I would get nada. Ultimately, I rebooted after all this. I then found that root and user were able to query the database and install rpms again. At this point I don't know if my repeated --rebuilddb attempts actually worked but stalled before closing the process or what, but it is working again for now. praedor On Friday 07 March 2003 09:15 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2003 03:42 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > > Mandrake 9.0. I was just trying to run a search for lesstif (rpm > > > -qa|grep lesstif) and found myself waiting forever for an answer. > > > I then just downloaded the lesstif rpm and tried to install it. > > > Nothing. It does the "preparing" thing but just stalls and never > > > gets anywhere. I then tried running "rpm --rebuilddb" and via [...] > > > What do I do to get rpm working again? What file do I delete > > > (database, config, whatever) so I can reset the whole mess with > > > an "rpm --rebuild"? > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* > (^^, that's two underscores) > rpm --rebuilddb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+aK5jaKr9sJYeTxgRAp4mAKCGagdWXA5CX4XdhHlm7sNh/fqyDACeLCUN 9E2UIkGnmLuLGAbgruFxULY= =ss+/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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