> On Thursday 06 March 2003 03:42 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > Mandrake 9.0. I was just trying to run a search for lesstif (rpm
> > -qa|grep lesstif) and found myself waiting forever for an answer.
> > I then just downloaded the lesstif rpm and tried to install it.
> > Nothing. It does the "preparing" thing but just stalls and never
> > gets anywhere. I then tried running "rpm --rebuilddb" and via
> > gkrellm I see CPU activity spike up to 100% for about 10 seconds
> > or so but then it drops back to background and nothing comes of
> > it (from the CLI). I do not get dumped back to the commandline
> > and I have to do a Ctrl-C to get the command prompt back.
> >
> > What do I do to get rpm working again? What file do I delete
> > (database, config, whatever) so I can reset the whole mess with
> > an "rpm --rebuild"?
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
(^^, that's two underscores)
rpm --rebuilddb
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