Had similiar symptoms here a few weeks ago. rebuilddb never finished (wasn't 
doing anything visible after a minute or so). I remember to reinstall the rpm 
packages (using Mandrake's fantastic urpmi tool ;-) ) and then the rebuilddb 
finished it's job properly. Had no problems since. I don't know what exactly 
caused this behaviour.

Z.

On Friday 01 November 2002 20:47, David Walser wrote:
> --- Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >
> > Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > > Stiill playing with the recently updated 9.0.
> > > After a few rpm operations, rpm started gaving db
> >
> > errors.
> >
> > > Did an rpm --rebuilddb and now the database is
> >
> > horribly broken: many
> >
> > > installed packages now aren't in the database,
> >
> > with the related problems
> >
> > > that this gives.
> >
> > Did you rm -f /var/lib/rpm/_* first?
> >
> > Maybe rpmdrake needs a gui for this ;-).
> >
> > Buchan
>
> Yeah, I had to do this just last night (rpmdrake/grpmi
> caused the problem), and rpm --rebuilddb took forever.
>  I remember this being almost instantaneous on RH 5.2,
> what's the deal?
>
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