Re: rpm database corrupted, how to recover?
Torrey Hoffman <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:37:36 -0800
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On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:23, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Nov 12, 2003, Torrey Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > While installing some rpms from FreshRPMs.net on my system, rpm > > segfaulted. It seems to have corrupted the database in the process, and > > now all rpm commands hang. > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > rpm --rebuilddb > Thanks very much, that worked. Can I suggest that rpm --rebuilddb be changed to do that automatically, so it doesn't just hang in this situation? Thanks again for the quick response. -- Torrey Hoffman <[email protected]> -- fedora-test-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list