Um, what is actually used to rebuild the rpm DB ? Is the DB information found somewhere else ?!
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM, shrek-m gmx.de <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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