On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:19:25 -0800 Jim Wilferling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:48:58 -0800 > Jim Wilferling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Folks, > > I was trying to install the "Phoebe" rpms last night, using Apt and > > Synaptic, and being extremely concious of wierd cross-dependencies, thought I > > was doing fine. But at one point apt and synaptic quit working properly, though > > I stayed completelty away from u.g.'ing them and RPM till the last. But when I > > investigated further, I tried to install a superfluous rpm manually (-Uvvh)All > > appears well untill the installation itself, then RPM unceremoniously segfaults. > > I've looked at my logfiles, ran "tail -f /var/log/messages" hunted through /etc/ > > tosee if a conf file got displaced, etc. nothing. I'm willing to continue with > > the upgrade, since I've read that rpm 4.1 can get buggy with redhat 8.0, and had > > it hang just like the RPM site describes, and the Phoebe packages have a newer > > version of RPM. but without a working version of rpm, I'm kind of stuck. Anyone > > out there have any ideas as to where I go from here? Short of a re-install of my > > OS? Please pardon me If I'm missing something obvious, I'm kind of new at this, > > and the learning curve is steep. > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > I just did a google on the problem, though, and found this page... > www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb and followed the suggestions there, i.e. > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db001 > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db002 > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db003 > > (yes, I had 3. All appeared to be corrupted gibberish) > then, > > rpm -vv --rebuilddb > > then tested rpm with a package of icons I had laying around....and guess what? It > worked! > > -Jim > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list OOps, I spoke too soon. while plain rpm worked, synaptic still caused RPM to segfault "error:sub-process /bin/rpm returned a segmentation fault" Any help? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
