Occasionally I get told that the rpm database may be corrupt and that I should
try running rpm --rebuilddb. This always works, but the package that was being
installed when the problem occured always needs to be re-installed. This
problem seems to occur when doing multiple rpm's one after another. But that's
just what has happened so far. If I say that then it will probably occur when I
just do one rpm !
Owen
On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote:
> I just had it happen with mdk7.1b after loading RealPlayer7.0 rpm -
> thought it was RealPlayer though. Rebooting did fix the problem.
>
> Mike
>
> David Aspinall wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone noticed an weird problem using the rpm command in quick
> > succession to upgrade packages? I occasionally get the spurious error
> > "cannot open database" between commands.
> >
> > This wasn't a problem until I started using autorpm to upgrade cooker
> > rpms automatically from a local mirror directory. It keeps crashing
> > part way through with "ERROR: RPM cannot open RPM database..."
> >
> > This happens with rpm-3.0.3-43mdk from M7 as well as current
> > rpm-3.0.4-0.12mdk
> >
> > rpm bug? anything else it could be?
> >
> > - David
>
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