Re: Corrupt rpm database

2003-01-03 Thread Cliff Wells
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:49, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 02 January 2003 07:37 pm, Cliff Wells wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:57, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > > > If you look in /var/log/rpmpkgs, you should have a complete list of >

Re: Corrupt rpm database

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 January 2003 07:37 pm, Cliff Wells wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:57, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > If you look in /var/log/rpmpkgs, you should have a complete list of > > all the packages instaled on your system as of 4:00 AM today. If

Re: Corrupt rpm database

2003-01-02 Thread Cliff Wells
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:57, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 01 January 2003 06:57 pm, Cliff Wells wrote: > > I seem to have lost my rpm database. After upgrading a couple of rpms, > > rpm would fail, telling me to run recover (whatever th

Re: Corrupt rpm database

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 January 2003 08:57 pm, Michael Fratoni wrote: > The version of RPM included with the 8.0 release is prone to getting > hung, and leaving the database in need of repair. > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73097 > > Ge

Re: Corrupt rpm database

2003-01-01 Thread Benjamin R. Mohilef
Oddly enough, I had a similar problem on an smp development box running Rawhide (beta) when I tried to upgrade to the new and improved glibc set. Lots of "I can only do PRIVATE_DB" type messages, rpm only worked from user accounts (not root) and no ability to reverse the glibc change. I ende

Re: Corrupt rpm database

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 January 2003 06:57 pm, Cliff Wells wrote: > I seem to have lost my rpm database. After upgrading a couple of rpms, > rpm would fail, telling me to run recover (whatever the hell that is - > couldn't find any reference to such a thing i

Re: Corrupt rpm database

2003-01-01 Thread Cliff Wells
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 16:35, Roger wrote: > Hi > > Try to do this > > rpm --rebuliddb Already been tried (with a slightly different spelling ;) In fact, that appears to be what killed my database to begin with). Anyway, I seem to have gotten over the major hurdle. I used red-carpet (which I no

Re: Corrupt rpm database

2003-01-01 Thread Roger
Hi Try to do this rpm --rebuliddb - Original Message - From: "Cliff Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 7:57 AM Subject: Corrupt rpm database -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Corrupt rpm database

2003-01-01 Thread Cliff Wells
I seem to have lost my rpm database. After upgrading a couple of rpms, rpm would fail, telling me to run recover (whatever the hell that is - couldn't find any reference to such a thing in the rpm man page). Anyway, tried rpm --rebuilddb which also failed the first time, but seemed to work the s

Re: Corrupt RPM Database

2002-02-07 Thread Badger
On Thursday 07 February 2002 08:34 pm, you wrote: > > "Badger" == Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You might want to try the rpm-list mailing list; it concentrates > exclusively on RPM-related issues... > > You can signup here: > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: Corrupt RPM Database

2002-02-07 Thread Edward C. Bailey
> "Badger" == Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... Badger> My rpm database is corrupt and I've tried both the "rpm Badger> --rebuilddb," and the "rpm --initdb" and neither works. When I try Badger> to install and rpm, do a rpm -qa, or rpm -Va, I get a segmentation Badger> fault and the scr

Corrupt RPM Database

2002-02-06 Thread Badger
Sorry if this is a re-post, the last post I sent on this subject went into a rh mailing list "blackhole." My rpm database is corrupt and I've tried both the "rpm --rebuilddb," and the "rpm --initdb" and neither works. When I try to install and rpm, do a rpm -qa, or rpm -Va, I get a segmentati