This, or something like it IS in the archives - somewhere. (I have had problems in the past finding things in the archives too.) I had exactly the same problem myself a while back, and have it fixed now.
Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly what I did, or what the helpful messages were, but it may have been the following: 1) kill ALL processes that have anything to do with rpm 2) rm /var/lib/rpm/__* (that is "_" twice - usually __db.001 and __db.002) 3) rpm --rebuilddb That may fix it for you. I did find out what was causing this, but I can't remember that one either. I hope I made a note somewhere! Brian.
From: "Dean S. Messing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Corrupted RPM database (need help)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:15:49 -0800 (PST)
I know this has come up before, but I can't seem to find
the solution in the archives (other than re-installing).
My RPM database seems to have gotten corrupted.
If I do: rpm -qa
it hangs after listing most (but not all) of my installed packages.
I tried to do: rpm --rebuilddb
but this seems to go into an infinite loop. It will begin
rebuilding in the /var/lib directory but after some time the
load average jumps up one unit. After some more time it jumps
up another unit (to three) and the files in the re-build directory
just keep getting overwritten.
Is there any way to reconstruct the database? This system has a great
deal of out-of-distribution software (like win4lin, scilab, selected
cooker stuff, nvidia drivers, sun java rpms, &c.) which would take
hours to re-install.
All was well a couple of weeks ago. Since then I've done one or two
updates from the Mandrake update site. I have no idea how the DB got
corrupted.
System: Mdk 9.0 will all applicable updates as of 27th Dec 2002.
rpm -q rpm: rpm-4.0.4-19mdk
Thanks in advance.
I hope someone here can save my bacon!
Dean S. Messing
Display Algorithms & Visual Optimization Lab
Information Systems Technologies Dept.
Sharp Laboratories of America
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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