On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 13:19, Björn Olsson wrote: > On 30 Jun 2003 James Sparenberg wrote:: > > > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:11, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > > > Hi List! > > > > > > I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is > > > working. > > > > > > Any other suggestion? I cannot reboot the computer. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > cd /var/lib/rpm and remove files like __db.001 etc (note it's two > > leading underscores) then try again. > > > > James > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > James, > > What are these files for? I've got two of them in my folder and one of > them seems to contain info from some installed rpms, among other things. > > /Björn Olsson > > > ______________________________________________________________________ They are the temp files created when running rpm --rebuilddb. They should, when a successful rebuild is completed get deleted. The problem is that if something interrupts the rebuild (Human, segfault, whatever) they get left behind and wind up confusing rpm the next time around.
James
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