On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:44, Jack Coates wrote: > a few days ago I screwed up one of my boxes by giving it some rpm > commands while urpmi was running (combination of virtual desktops, urpmi > database locking issue, and PEBCAK). > > I've done rpm --rebuilddb a couple of times so it's now consistent > again; unfortunately, it's consistent in the belief that it hasn't got > any RPMs installed :-) > > I figure this will gradually correct itself with urpmi.update > --auto-select as the various packages get updated, but that's kind of > lame and a waste of mirror bandwidth; any better ideas for fixing it? > > thanks,
either rpm --initdb will work or this link http://hermes.afaa.asso.fr/users/pascal/linux/rpm-rebuilddb For a total ooops it's gone rebuild. James
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