On Friday 17 January 2003 16:05, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote:
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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}
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> over and over and over forever.
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> 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
Does 'urpmi' fail too, or is this just 'rpm' that won't work?
HarM
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