Re: [expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
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

Re: [expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-07 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-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

Re: [expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-07 Thread Luca Olivetti
Praedor Atrebates wrote: 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

[expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:42, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-06 Thread A V Flinsch
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