On Tuesday 09 January 2001 08:59 pm, cyberclay wrote:
> I'm having a pretty serious rpm problem.
> Something has apparently happened to my
> /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm file:
> [cclay@www ~cclay]# rpm -q bash
> cannot open file //var/lib/rpm/nameindex.rpm: Invalid argument
> rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
> How can I re-create this? Should I just re-install
> rpm? Which version is appropriate for Mandrake 7.0,
> and where can I find it as a tar.gz file (because I
> obviously can't use an rpm).
Have you tried (as root): rpm --rebuilddb
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
