Re: bug in RH8 rpm ?!?

[Peter Zengota]

There is currently an open bug in BugZilla regarding this issue: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68056

Seems to be widespread issues with rpm in RedHat 8...






From: Michael Fratoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: bug in RH8 rpm ?!?
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 07:09:50 -0500

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On Saturday 09 November 2002 06:41 am, Michael Grosseck wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I noticed on several computers the same problem with the rpm-system.
> Sometimes if I erase or install a pakage the process goes sleeping and
> doesn't wake up again. I run my machine all night long, but nothing
> changed, the process is still sleeping. I just can kill the process.
> But then I can't even query for a rpm-pakage. But the strange thing is,
> I can query a pakage with normal user rights. But with normal user
> rights I can't install or erase any pakage. Just a reboot of the
> machine helps. Any hints?

http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/

Basically:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb

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