On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:30, Stephen Kitchener wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a small problem, the rpm database on my Makdrake 9.0 machine has gone.
> I have tried rpm --rebuilddb, I got an io error on the db file, I can't
> remember the full error as it has gone out of the scope of the buffer.
>
> I then tried rpm --initdb followd by rpm --rebuilddb, but the promp returns
> almost immediatly and when I do an rpm -qa | grep for an rpm that I know is
> installed, it dosn't find anything, is there a way for me to force a rebuild
> the db please.
Before going into a complete pommie-panic, you might want to double
check your path statements - both in the system profile and in your
/etc/ld.so.conf and rerunning ldconfig then doing a reboot - JUST IN
CASE...you might find that there may have been an aberration somewhere
that just needed to be resolved...if that fails, THEN PANIC.
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