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On Thursday 18 September 2003 21:25, RichardA wrote:
> The ssh exploit reminded me to update. I did "urpmi.update -a", which
> went fine.
> Then I did "urpmi -v --auto-select". It wanted to download 300MB +, so I
> let it. Then a message about bad signatures, so I said yes again. Then::
>
> starting installing packages
> rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery.
> Can't call method "create_transaction" on an undefined value at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/urpm.pm line 2008, <STDIN> line 2.
>
> Something is broken, methinks.
>
> Richard
If you are talking about Mandrake 9.1 then the answer is simple - your rpm db
just broke up. It's pretty simple to fix it though. First you have to delete
the old rpm db:
# rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
then just rebuild the db (without loosing the currently installed packages
list):
#rpm --rebuilddb
I don't think i have to mention that all this should be done as root
After the rebuilddb finish - go ahaead and update your sources again
(urpmi.update -a). And next time you want to update something ONLY from the
updates mirror - you can use the --update switch with the urpmi that tells it
to use ONLY the updates.
- --
Yours
Phazeman
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Linux registered user #218370
Using Mandrake Linux 9.1
Mandrake Club Registered User
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