Re: [newbie] Rebuilding RPM Database

2003-02-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Well, that did the trick! I thought to do that a while ago, but I didn't know all of the files I needed to delete. Thanks for the help. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091

Re: [newbie] Rebuilding RPM Database

2003-02-22 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > What's the problem here? Is there something else I should be doing? In > the past, after a power outage, once it reboots, the RPM db is fine. I > would rather not reboot my workstation, and figured there was another > means around this. > > Does anybody have any ideas/suggestions? > See if

[newbie] Rebuilding RPM Database

2003-02-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Recently I tried to check which RPMs I had installed for a few packages, and the rpm -qa | grep took forever. This has happened in the past, so I just rebuild the database. rpm --rebuilddb I've done this many times in the past, with a number of machines, and it goes through, takes a few minutes