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I don't know what happened or when but I cannot do anything with rpm except
make simple queries. VERY simple queries. And I cannot do a database
rebuild either. I have been trying to install/reinstall all the latest
Mandrake rpm-* rpms but I cannot do it. At first, I tried doing a simple rpm
query: "rpm -qa|grep rpm-" to see what rpm versions I had installed for rpm
itself. Nothing. Just sits there forever and never produces a result. If I
do "rpm -q rpm" I get a result. I then tried installing rpm-rebuilder and
rpm-get but it just sits there and wont do anything. Running an strace on it
it appears that rpm goes through some form of database query but then gets to
a point where all it does is timeout:
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout}
over and over and over forever.
If I try to do an rpm --rebuilddb, it does the same thing, just sits there
forever timing out.
How do I FORCE rpm to install an rpm regardless of whatever shape the rpm
database is? What if I delete the rpm database? What filename and where is
the database?
Help please. I'm screwed royal at this point. If one loses the ability to
use rpm on an rpm-dependent distro, one is HOSED.
praedor
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Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars.
- - Friedrich Nietzsche.
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