On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:48:58 -0800 Jim Wilferling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folks, > I was trying to install the "Phoebe" rpms last night, using Apt and > Synaptic, and being extremely concious of wierd cross-dependencies, thought I > was doing fine. But at one point apt and synaptic quit working properly, though > I stayed completelty away from u.g.'ing them and RPM till the last. But when I > investigated further, I tried to install a superfluous rpm manually (-Uvvh)All > appears well untill the installation itself, then RPM unceremoniously segfaults. > I've looked at my logfiles, ran "tail -f /var/log/messages" hunted through /etc/ > tosee if a conf file got displaced, etc. nothing. I'm willing to continue with > the upgrade, since I've read that rpm 4.1 can get buggy with redhat 8.0, and had > it hang just like the RPM site describes, and the Phoebe packages have a newer > version of RPM. but without a working version of rpm, I'm kind of stuck. Anyone > out there have any ideas as to where I go from here? Short of a re-install of my > OS? Please pardon me If I'm missing something obvious, I'm kind of new at this, > and the learning curve is steep. > > Jim > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list I just did a google on the problem, though, and found this page... www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb and followed the suggestions there, i.e. rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db001 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db002 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db003 (yes, I had 3. All appeared to be corrupted gibberish) then, rpm -vv --rebuilddb then tested rpm with a package of icons I had laying around....and guess what? It worked! -Jim -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
