Re: [expert] RPM simply doesn't work

2000-12-24 Thread Bill Kenworthy
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

Re: [expert] RPM simply doesn't work

2000-12-22 Thread Simon Cousins
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

Re: [expert] RPM simply doesn't work

2000-12-22 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
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

Re: [expert] RPM simply doesn't work

2000-12-22 Thread Simon Cousins
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