On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 00:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hi Stephen, > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:30, Stephen Kitchener wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a small problem, the rpm database on my Makdrake 9.0 machine has > > gone. I have tried rpm --rebuilddb, I got an io error on the db file, I > > can't remember the full error as it has gone out of the scope of the > > buffer. > > > > I then tried rpm --initdb followd by rpm --rebuilddb, but the promp > > returns almost immediatly and when I do an rpm -qa | grep for an rpm that > > I know is installed, it dosn't find anything, is there a way for me to > > force a rebuild the db please. > > Before going into a complete pommie-panic, you might want to double > check your path statements - both in the system profile and in your > /etc/ld.so.conf and rerunning ldconfig then doing a reboot - JUST IN > CASE...you might find that there may have been an aberration somewhere > that just needed to be resolved...if that fails, THEN PANIC.
Ok I am now panicking, (:-P) Before I tried the first rpm --rebuild I was trying to ask rpm if a certain package was installed. I then got the io error. Before all this the system had been sitting quiet for some time and had recently been fixed with the security/update rpms from Mandrake. All the updates performed with out probelms. I do this via the command line as I like to see what is going on. /etc/ld.so.conf contents are as follows /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/qt3/lib and ldconfig produced no errors. -- Stephen Kitchener "The best way to accellerate a win9x machine is at 9.81m/s2"
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