[tlug] Re: rpm broken? RTFM!!!

[Bruno Raoult <br@example.com>]

Ooops. I found it, finally: rpm --rebuilddb makes it sane again. I was 
too quick reading
the man page :-(

br.

Bruno Raoult wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A dirty crash occured whilt rpm was installing a package, and, since 
> that moment,
> I guess that the rpm DB is corrupted. Is there a way to force the 
> rebuild of the
> rpm DB to a sane state?
>
> The symptoms are:
> - some installed package are not seen by rpm
> - installing/reinstalling a package seems to work, but gives a 
> segfault, and the new
>  package, even useable, is not installed according to rpm
> - --erase does not work too
>
> But rpm -qa gives all the package names, even multiple times, when I 
> tried to
> re-insytall. Example:
> 104 tschai br> rpm -qa | grep jpi
> jpilot-devel-0.99-266
> jpilot-Backup-0.41-54
> jpilot-Mail-0.0.6-190
> jpilot-0.99-266
> jpilot-0.99-266
> jpilot-0.99-266
> jpilot-0.99-266
> jpilot-0.99-266
> jpilot-0.99-266
> jpilot-0.99-266
> jpilot-0.99-266
> jpilot-0.99-266
> 105 tschai br>  rpm -qvv jpilot
> D: opening database mode 0x0 in /var/lib/rpm
> package jpilot is not installed
>
> Any clue, this is quite disturbing!!!
>
> br.
>

-- 
Real Men do not use signatures.