On Wednesday 12 June 2002 07:26 pm, you wrote: > On Friday 12 June 2009 09:36 pm, you wrote: > > Whenever I rpm or urpmi something, I get the following message: > > > > rpmdb: read: 0x4014b274, 4096: Input/output error > > rpmdb: Hash bucket 428 maps to non-hash page 518 > > error: db3 error(-30985) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database > > verification failed > > > > I assume my database is corrupt, but how do I fix it (I tried rpm > > --rebuilddb to no avail)? > > > > Sir Robin > > I thought it was rebuilddb or something... You gotta do it as root I > think... I don't recall... Sorry.
He has it right, "rpm --rebuilddb" and yes you do need to do it as single user probably for best effect. I just do a ctl-alt-F6 and run it with a su login. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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