I know of two systems that have done this, one mine. "rpm --rebuilddb"
fixed them. The cause in my case was MandrakeUpdate locking up during
an install and corrupting the rpm db. I think this was the case in the
other incident to.
For Mandrake, how about a "rebuild db" button on
I have reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 on my system (formated the partition and
installed over it), but now I can't seem to install anything with rpm. All
rpm packages I try to install cause my system to start working intensively,
the disk(s) work like they never have before and I can't do
On Saturday 23 December 2000 00:07, Simon Cousins wrote:
I have reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 on my system (formated the partition and
installed over it), but now I can't seem to install anything with rpm.
All rpm packages I try to install cause my system to start working
intensively, the
I have reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 on my system (formated the partition and
installed over it), but now I can't seem to install anything with rpm.
All rpm packages I try to install cause my system to start working
intensively, the disk(s) work like they never have before and I can't do