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 MandrakeUpdate and a
test for a corrupt db? - this seems to be a common problem, and also
another look at MandrakeUpdate itself seems in order.
BillK
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 disk(s) work like they never have before and I can't do
> >>> anything, not even kill the rpm process. I left my computer one time
> >>> when installing an rpm (to see if it would "finish"), when I got back 7
> >>> hours later the system was still working. The only solution seems to
> >>> reboot the system by pressing the reset switch.
> >>
> >> I've seen this behaviour on three different 7.2 boxes that I've set up
> >> recently.
> >>
