Still dies:
[root@blackhole /tmp]# rpm --rebuilddb
Data type 0 not supported
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Scott Kindley wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> >
> > Do *any* tools exist at all to help reconstruct an rpm database? One of
> > my machines RPM databases got hosed in the upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1. I
> > still have a directory with plenty of data:
> (snip)
> > My question is, what is going on here, I am assuming somehow the data
> > format got hosed, and if I could somehow "dump"t this data, edit out the
> > bad parts and rebuild it, that would be most helpfull. Or if some sort of
> > repair utility exists.
> >
> > [root@blackhole signal]# rpm --rebuilddb
> > Data type 0 not supported
> >
> > Please someone tell me their is a way I can fix this!
>
>
> I think tihs is what you need, lemme know if this fails. Taken from the
> 6.1 Gotcha's...
>
>
> 5.5 Upgrade problem: can't find a valid RPM data base error
>
> Question:
>
> I am trying to upgrade my earlier Red Hat Linux system to the current
> release, but it complains that it can't find a valid RPM data base. What
> do I need to do?
>
> Answer:
>
> The problem is that a few earlier versions of RPM would write the
> database in a way that seems corrupted to later versions. Rebuilding the
> database fixes the install
> problems. We will need to upgrade RPM on your system to the one on the
> installation CD-ROM, and rebuild the databases.
>
> First thing to do is mount the latest CD-ROM on the system.
>
> mount /mnt/cdrom
>
> After doing this upgrade 'RPM' off the CD-ROM like so:
>
> cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
> rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force rpm-*rpm
>
> When the new RPM is installed, rebuild the database.
>
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> This will put the database in a format that the installation RPM can use
> (since they are the same.)
>
>
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