Brian:
Try:
rpm --rebuilddb
I think it is documented in the man page as well.
- Mike
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Brian wrote:
>
> Something happened to the RPM database on one of my machines.
>
> When I type rpm -qa it will print about 45 package names, then abort with
> "Data type 0 not supported". I also get the error when trying to install
> or erase some packages, and even worse, its produced on an rpm
> --rebuilddb:
>
>
> [root@blackhole i386]# rpm -vv --rebuilddb
> D: rebuilding database in rootdir /
> D: creating directory: /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.20915
> D: opening old database
> D: opening database mode 0x0 in //var/lib/rpm/
> D: opening new database
> D: opening database mode 0x42 in /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.20915/
> Data type 0 not supported
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is wrong, or how to fix it?
>
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