Geoffrey schrieb: > A colleague of mine has apparently trashed his rpm database. Red Hat > EL 4. He was in the midst of a relatively major update, when up2sdate > crashed (he waits too long to update, but that's another story). Now > when he does 'rpm -qa|wc -l' it returns 47, and we all know that's not > accurate. > > We've tried: > > rpm --rebuilddb > rpmdb --rebuilddb > > No joy. At first we received this error: > > 'RPM error. The message was: > Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running. > If you get this error, try running > rpm --rebuilddb' > > We resolved this issue by reinstalling the rehat-release rpm. > > Now we are receiving this error: > > 'error: db4 error(-30988) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: > Requested > page not found' > > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
iirc this happend sometimes under rhl 8.0 and rhl 9 iirc you have to remove the files /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* before you have success with `rpm --rebuilddb` -- shrek-m _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
