Re: rpm database corrupted, how to recover?

Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]> 12 Nov 2003 20:23:19 -0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.beta
Organization	GCC Team, Red Hat
Message-ID	<orislpjkfc.fsf__2719.3263326355$1068687301@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>

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

> So I moved /var/lib/rpm/Packages to /var/lib/rpm/Packages.corrupt

Don't do this.  It's what --rebuilddb would use to rebuild the
databases.

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