On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:35:49PM -0500, Jim wrote: > FC12-x86_64/KDE > > #yum install > > Error: Database disk image is malformed > > I removed /var/lib/rpm/__db.** files > And then I did a ; > #rpm --rebuilddb * > > But that still doesn't help when running yum. > What am I not doing right?
I ran into this once recently, when I hit Ctrl-C at an inopportune moment while yum was running on that window. Like you, thought it was the RPM database that was corrupt, and like you did the same thing to no effect. # yum clean all had no effect either. To resolve, I deleted all the contents of /var/lib/yum/. It's kind of heavyweight, but it resolved it. You may try simply deleting /var/lib/yum/history/* first, and see if that's sufficient (assuming you don't need to be able to have yum roll back completed transactions to some previous state). If not, try deleting yumdb/ there. There may be a better way to handle this, but I'll let the yum experts chime in then. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines